Alaska Gazetteer
Kachwona Creek is a physical feature (stream) in Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Kachwona Creek |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | flows NE to North Fork Koyukuk River at Gates of the Arctic, 37 mi. NW of Wiseman, Brooks Range |
| History: | "Probably named for an Eskimo girl of the Wiseman area. Marshall (1956, p. 83), in describing a Fourth of July celebration in Wiseman, wrote, ""The big feature * * * was dancing. We started at six-thirty on the evening of July 4, and at eleven next morning four Eskimo girls, Kaaruk, Ashuwaruk, Kayak, and Kachwona, were still going strong * * *.""" |
| Borough: | Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 67.8438873291 |
| Longitude: | -150.882217407 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Kachwona Creek: Kachwona Creek.
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