Alaska Gazetteer
Gold Creek is a physical feature (stream) in Juneau Borough. The primary coordinates for Gold Creek places it within the AK 99801 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Gold Creek |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads in unnamed glacier W of Clark Peak and flows W to Gastineau Channel at Juneau, Coast Mts. 5.5 miles long. |
| History: | Name first appears in mining records in 1880 and was probably named by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau in 1880 when they found gold in the creek (DeArmond, 1951, p. 22). Name was published in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 172). |
| Borough: | Juneau Borough |
| Latitude: | 58.2991676331 |
| Longitude: | -134.417770386 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Gold Creek: Gold 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 Gold Creek does not include property ownership information.
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West Juneau, AK
(< 0.1 mile) Starr Hill, AK (< 0.1 mile) Douglas, AK (1.9 miles SSE) Vanderbilt Hill, AK (4.1 miles NW) Thane, AK (4.1 miles SE) |
Lemon Creek, AK
(5.1 miles NW) Mendenhall Valley, AK (8.3 miles NW) Mendenhaven, AK (8.4 miles NW) Auke Bay, AK (10.5 miles WNW) Fairhaven, AK (11.7 miles WNW) |
