Information About

Snake River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Snake River on The Map

Location

64 ° 29' 55" N,
165 ° 24' 47.002" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Nome

Tributary to

Norton Sound

Tributaries

Dry Creek, Glacier Creek,

Elevation

13 ft (3.96 m)

Snake River in Detail.

About

formed by junction of Goldbottom Creek and North Fork Snake River, flows SW 15 mi., then SE 5 mi. to Norton Sound at Nome, Seward Peninsula High.

History

Local name reported in 1899 by D. C. Witherspoon, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); published in 1900 on U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) Chart 9380 and by Schrader and Brooks (1900, map 2). So named in 1898 because of its serpentine-like course by the three men who found gold in the area: John Brynteson, E. O. Lindblom, and Jafet Lindeberg (Rickard, 1909, p. 332).

Topo Maps

Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome B-1 (1950), Nome B-1 (1950), Nome B-1 (1950), Nome (1951), Nome (1951), Nome (1957), Nome B-1 NW (2017),
Places Near Snake River
Cities:

Discovery, Uinuk,

Capes:

Belmont Point,

Cities:

Nome,

Cliffs:

Ptarmigan Rock,

Hills:

Bonanza Hill, Dexter Peak, Native Hill,

Lakes:

Twin Lakes,

Mountains:

Anvil Mountain, Banner Peak, Mount Brynteson, Engstrom Mountain, King Mountain, Monument Rock, Newton Peak, North Newton Peak, Twin Mountain,

Rivers:

Nome River, North Fork Snake River, Snake River,

Streams:

Albion Creek, Alpha Creek, American Creek, Anvil Creek, Balto Creek, Bangor Creek, Banner Creek, Barr Creek, Basin Creek, Bear Creek, Becher Creek, Bird Creek, Blatchford Creek, Borg Creek, Boulder Creek, Bourbon Creek, Brush Creek, Buster Creek, Camp Creek, Canyon Creek, Center Creek, Crystal Creek, Dewey Creek, Dexter Creek, Divining Creek, Dry Creek, Elk Creek, Ellis Creek, Extra Dry Creek, Flat Creek, Glacier Creek, Gold Creek, Gold Creek, Gold Run, Goldbottom Creek, Goose Creek, Grose Creek, Hart Creek, Hatch Creek, Hazel Creek, Helen Creek, Hilda Creek, Holyoke Creek, Hunter Creek, Ingraham Creek, Irene Creek, Iron Creek, Jorosa Creek, July Creek, June Creek, Laurada Creek, Left Elk Creek, Left Fork Banner Creek, Left Fork Dexter Creek, Left Fork Dry Creek, Left Fork Slate Creek, Lillian Creek, Lindblom Creek, Little Creek, Little Dexter Creek, Lost Creek, Lynn Creek, Martin Creek, McDonald Creek, Mineral Creek, Monument Creek, Moonlight Creek, Mountain Creek, Mud Creek, New Bonanza Creek, Oniga Creek, Osborn Creek, Otter Creek, Peluk Creek, Prospect Creek, Queen Creek, Rifle Creek, Right Fork Slate Creek, Rock Creek, Rudolph Creek, Russel Creek, Saturday Creek, Seattle Creek, Shepard Creek, Skookum Creek, Slate Creek, Slate Creek, Sledge Creek, Someone Creek, Sparkle Creek, Sufus Creek, Sunby Creek, Sunset Creek, Thompson Creek, Tripple Creek, Twin Mountain Creek, Violet Creek, Washington Creek, Wonder Creek,

Valleys:

Abbe Gulch, American Gulch, Bare Gulch, Bergstrom Gulch, Blind Gulch, Bonanza Gulch, Boston Gulch, Brandon Gulch, Burns Gulch, Butterfield Canyon, Chief Gulch, Cooper Gulch, Covina Gulch, Davis Gulch, Deer Gulch, East Gulch, Erickson Gulch, Eureka Gulch, Florence Gulch, Fox Gulch, Gass Gulch, Gold Hill Gulch, Goldpan Gulch, Gordon Gulch, Grace Gulch, Grass Gulch, Grouse Gulch, Holyoke Gulch, Hotel Gulch, Ice Gulch, Irish Gulch, Joe Gulch, Kanoma Gulch, Little Gulch, Little Specimen Gulch, Mabe Gulch, Madison Gulch, Magnolia Gulch, Mary Gulch, Morgan Gulch, Moss Gulch, Nekula Gulch, Nellie Gulch, New Year Gulch, Newton Gulch, Nil Desperandum Gulch, Phillips Gulch, Pioneer Gulch, Quartz Gulch, Richmond Gulch, Rocker Gulch, Ruby Gulch, Scotch Gulch, Slate Gulch, Snow Gulch, Sofia Gulch, Specimen Gulch, Stevens Gulch, Tug Gulch, Union Gulch, Wet Gulch, Woodchuck Gulch,

Cities:

Perkinsville, Summit, Sunset,