Information About

Greyling Creek

Quick Facts

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Location

61 ° 30' 49" N,
145 ° 30' 28.001" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Glennallen

Elevation

1886 ft (574.85 m)

Greyling Creek in Detail.

About

heads in Greyling Lake, flows NE to Tonsina Lake, 2.2 mi. E of mouth of Tonsina Creek and 35 mi. NE of Valdez, Chugach Mts. 14 miles long.

History

Named in 1898 by prospectors for the Alaska grayling, Thymallus signifer, a fresh water fish; reported by Oscar Rohn, of Captain W. R. Abercrombie's expedition in 1899. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published the present spelling in 1932.