Alaska Gazetteer
Mount Carmack is a physical feature (summit) in Skagway Borough. The primary coordinates for Mount Carmack places it within the 99840 ZIP Code delivery area.
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| Feature Name: | Mount Carmack |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | in Coast Mts., 3.2 mi. S of Mount Cleveland and 7 mi. NW of Skagway |
| History: | Named in 1898 by John A. Flemer, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), probably for George W. Carmack whose discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek in 1896 resulted in the Klondike gold rush. Carmack was born in Illinois and came to Alaska during the Juneau gold rush in 1881. He married an Indian girl and for several years he and his wife and her relatives fished for salmon along the Klondike River. In 1896 he met Bob Henderson, an ex-sailor turned prospector, who told him about his gold discovery in the Yukon basin the previous summer. Carmack with his two in-laws, Tagish Jim and Tagish Charlie, visited the site of Henderson's discovery. After prospecting in the area for a few days, they found gold on Rabbit Creek, now called Bonanza Creek. The subsequent finding of large gold nuggets on this creek led to the Klondike gold rush. |
| Borough: | Skagway Borough |
| Latitude: | 59.5650863647 |
| Longitude: | -135.251266479 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount Carmack: Mount Carmack.
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 Mount Carmack does not include property ownership information.
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Skagway, AK
(7.7 miles SSW) |
Lutak, AK
(19 miles SW) |
