Information About

Nome River

Quick Facts

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Location

64 ° 28' 58.001" N,
165 ° 18' 18" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Nome

Elevation

7 ft (2.13 m)

Nome River in Detail.

About

heads 4.5 mi. W of Salmon Lake, flows S to Norton Sound, 4 mi. SE of Nome, Seward Peninsula High.

History

Prospectors' name derived from Cape Nome and reported in 1899 by D. C. Witherspoon (in Schrader and Brooks, 1900, map 2), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Nome River Gallery

Pictures of, from, or near Nome River.

Places Near Nome River
Cities:

Discovery, Hastings Creek, Uinuk,

Capes:

Belmont Point,

Cities:

Nome,

Cliffs:

Ptarmigan Rock,

Hills:

Bonanza Hill, Dexter Peak, Native Hill,

Lakes:

Twin Lakes,

Mountains:

Anvil Mountain, Army Peak, Banner Peak, Mount Brynteson, Engstrom Mountain, King Mountain, Newton Peak, North Newton Peak, Osborn Dome, Twin Mountain,

Rivers:

Nome River, Snake River,

Streams:

Albion Creek, Alpha Creek, Anvil Creek, Balto Creek, Bangor Creek, Banner Creek, Barr Creek, Basin Creek, Bear Creek, Becher Creek, Bird Creek, Blatchford Creek, Bonita Creek, Borg Creek, Boulder Creek, Bourbon Creek, Brush Creek, Buster Creek, Camp Creek, Canyon Creek, Center Creek, Crystal Creek, Cunningham Creek, Cuss Creek, Derby Creek, Dewey Creek, Dexter Creek, Divining Creek, Dry Creek, Edna Creek, Elk Creek, Ellis Creek, Extra Dry Creek, Flat Creek, Garnet Creek, Glacier Creek, Gold Creek, Gold Creek, Gold Run, Goose Creek, Grass Creek, Grose Creek, Hart Creek, Hastings Creek, Hatch Creek, Hazel Creek, Helen Creek, Hilda Creek, Holyoke Creek, Hunker Creek, Hunter Creek, Ida Creek, Ingraham Creek, Irene Creek, Jorosa Creek, July Creek, June Creek, Laurada Creek, Left Elk Creek, Left Fork Banner Creek, Left Fork Dexter Creek, Left Fork Dry Creek, Lillian Creek, Lindblom Creek, Little Creek, Little Derby Creek, Little Dexter Creek, Lost Creek, Lynn Creek, Made Creek, Martin Creek, Matson Creek, McDonald Creek, Mineral Creek, Monument Creek, Moonlight Creek, Mountain Creek, Nancy Lee Creek, New Bonanza Creek, New Eldorado Creek, Nugget Creek, O-Brien Creek, Oniga Creek, Osborn Creek, Otter Creek, Peluk Creek, Prospect Creek, Ptarmigan Creek, Queen Creek, Rifle Creek, Rock Creek, Rudolph Creek, Russel Creek, Saint Michaels Creek, Saturday Creek, Saunders Creek, Seattle Creek, Shepard Creek, Skookum Creek, Slate Creek, Slate Creek, Sledge Creek, Someone Creek, Sparkle Creek, Sufus Creek, Sunby Creek, Thompson Creek, Triple Creek, Tripple Creek, Twin Mountain Creek, Violet Creek, Washington Creek, Willow Creek, Wonder Creek,

Valleys:

Abbe Gulch, Ainslie Gulch, American Gulch, Anita Gulch, Bare Gulch, Bergstrom Gulch, Birthday 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, Faraday Gulch, Florence Gulch, Fox Gulch, Gass Gulch, Gold Gulch, Gold Hill Gulch, Goldpan Gulch, Goodluck Gulch, Gordon Gulch, Grace Gulch, Grass Gulch, Grouse Gulch, Holyoke Gulch, Hotel Gulch, Ice Gulch, Irish Gulch, Joe Gulch, Josephine Gulch, Kanoma Gulch, Lackie Gulch, Lee Gulch, Little Gulch, Little Joe 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, Nugget Gulch, Phillips Gulch, Pioneer Gulch, Quartz Gulch, Quincy Gulch, Richmond Gulch, Rocker Gulch, Ruby Gulch, Scotch Gulch, Scotch Gulch, Slate Gulch, Snow Gulch, Snow Gulch, Sofia Gulch, Specimen Gulch, Stevens Gulch, Surprise Gulch, Tug Gulch, Union Gulch, Wet Gulch, Woodchuck Gulch, Zeaman Gulch,

Cities:

Bessie No. 5 Dredge Camp, Perkinsville, Summit,