Alaska Gazetteer
McLeod Creek is a physical feature (stream) in Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) Borough. The primary coordinates for McLeod Creek places it within the 99756 ZIP Code delivery area.
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| Feature Name: | McLeod Creek |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | heads at glacier terminus in Mount Mckinley National Park, flows N to Mckinley River at W end of Eagle Gorge, 11 mi. W of Wonder Lake, Tanana Low. |
| History: | Named by prospectors for John Mcleod a member of Judge James Wickersham!s Mckinley Expedition in 1903. The Circle philologer, the interpreter for Da-yin-num, the medicine man of too-whun-na. He is a hunter, a canoeman, a trapper who knows the wilderness life like his foster brothers, th e (Tena) Indians. (From Wickersham!s notes printed in the Fairbanks News-Miner July 17, 1963). Name reported as Mccloud by S. R. Capps, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1925. |
| Borough: | Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) Borough |
| Latitude: | 64.4694442749 |
| Longitude: | -151.245834351 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for McLeod Creek: McLeod Creek.
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