Alaska Gazetteer
Fawn Creek is a physical feature (stream) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Fawn Creek |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads in lake, flows NW to Gwydyr Bay, 11 mi. SE of Beechey Point, Arctic Plain. 3.5 miles long. |
| History: | "Named ""Fawn River by"" P. W. Dease and Thomas Simpson, who recorded on August 8, 1837, ""in the evening a little fawn came to the tents * * *; an incident that furnished a name for the streamlet"" (in T. Simpson, 1843, p. 174)." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.4122238159 |
| Longitude: | -148.727493286 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Fawn Creek: Fawn 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 Fawn Creek does not include property ownership information.
| Deadhorse, AK (15.2 miles SSE) |
