Alaska Gazetteer
Beaver Creek is a physical feature (stream) in Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) Borough.
Sorry, no local resorces for this location!
| Feature Name: | Beaver Creek |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | approx. 715 mi. long; heads in the White Mountains National Recreation Area (Bureau of Land Management), 3.6 mi. NNW of Table Top Mountain, 12 mi. SE of Cache Mountain, flows W, NE, then W through Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge to enter Beaver Slough, a side channel of the Yukon River, 9.5 mi. SSW of Beaver, 9.6 mi. E of Timber Point. Tps16,17,15-9, Rgs1-8E; Tps9-6N, R1W; and Tps6-7, Rgs1-4E, Fairbanks Meridian |
| History: | "Local name published in 1867 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS); this stream probably was the ""Nocotocargut,"" meaning ""mouth of the Nokot,"" reported in 1867 by the Western Union Telegraph Expedition. A proposal to change the name to the Gwich'in name Tsèenjik River was not approved by the BGN in 2017." |
| Borough: | Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 66.238609314 |
| Longitude: | -147.532775879 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Beaver Creek: Beaver Creek.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Beaver Creek does not include property ownership information.
