Alaska Gazetteer
Lindblom Creek is a physical feature (stream) in Nome (CA) Borough. The primary coordinates for Lindblom Creek places it within the 99762 ZIP Code delivery area.
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| Feature Name: | Lindblom Creek |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | flows to Snake River, 8 mi. NW of Nome, Seward Peninsula High. |
| History: | "Reported as ""Lindbloom"" on a map by S. E. king, dated 1900. Named for Erik C. Lindblom, one of the ""three Swedes"" who discovered gold in the Nome area in the summer of 1898. Lindblom, a native of Sweden, was 30 years old in 1898, and for several years had been a tailor in the stampede to Kotzebue Sound, but ended up in Council where he met John Brynteson, a Swede, and Jafet Lindeberg, a Norwegian. These three, often called the ""three Swedes,"" sought new territory and prospected along the coast of Norton Sound where they found gold along the Snake River (Rickard, 1909, p. 330-334)." |
| Borough: | Nome (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 64.620552063 |
| Longitude: | -165.469726562 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Lindblom Creek: Lindblom Creek.
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