Alaska Gazetteer
Kugruk River is a physical feature (stream) in Northwest Arctic Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Kugruk River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | On Seward Peninsula, flows from the SE part of Imuruk Lake in a NE direction to Kugruk Lagoon, at Kotzebue Sound 5.5 mi SE of Cape Deceit, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. 60 miles long. |
| History: | "Eskimo name reported in 1899 as ""Koogroog"" by Schrader and Brooks (1900, map 3) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This appears to be the stream that Petroff in 1880 named ""Mammoth"" ""from the occurrence of Mammoth bones in the vicinity"" (Baker, 1906, p. 424). Reported as ""Swan River"" in 1901 by D. L. Reaburn (in Mendenhall, 1902, pl. 42), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In 1904, after U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) had completed reconnaissance mapping of Seward Peninsula, attention was called to the fact that three major rivers on the peninsula were named ""Kugruk."" Action was then taken to change these names. The above river was retained as Kugruk since that is the way it was used in court records. The Kugruk River which flows to the Kuzitrin River was changed to Kougarok River, because as A. J. Collier, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), stated in a letter, ""it has always been pronounced locally as Koogarok, and so appears on all claim notices. When I first heard the name in 1900, I fancied that it had reference to the Rocky Mountain lion as cougar. In court records it is usually spelled 'Ko" |
| Borough: | Northwest Arctic Borough |
| Latitude: | 66.006111145 |
| Longitude: | -162.670272827 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Kugruk River: Kugruk River.
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