Information About

Pitkas Bar

Quick Facts

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Location

65 ° 20' 24" N,
144 ° 44' 11" W

Region

Yukon-Koyukuk (CA)

Nearest City

Circle Hot Springs

Elevation

1194 ft (363.93 m)

Pitkas Bar in Detail.

About

in Birch Creek, at mouth of Harrison Creek, 40 mi. SW of Circle, Yukon-Tanana High.

History

Named by prospectors for the two "half-breeds named Pitka and Sorresco" (Mertie, 1937, p. 5), who made the first discovery of gold on Birch Creek. The name was reported in 1908 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Covert and Ellsworth, 1909, pl. 4).

Topo Maps

Circle (1955), Circle (1955), Circle (1955), Circle (1955), Circle (1955), Circle (1955), Circle (1955), Circle (1955), Circle B-2 (1955), Circle B-2 (1955), Circle B-2 (1955), Circle B-2 (1955), Circle (1964),
Places Near Pitkas Bar
Bars:

Pitkas Bar,

Cities:

Circle Hot Springs,

Lakes:

Little Medicine Lake, Medicine Lake,

Mountains:

Ketchem Dome,

Rivers:

Mary Louise Fork,

Streams:

Bottom Dollar Creek, Buckley Bar Creek, Deadwood Creek, Easley Creek, Fifteen Pup, Graveyard Creek, Greenhorn Creek, Half Dollar Creek, Harrison Creek, Holdem Creek, Hot Springs Creek, Ketchem Creek, Nine Pup, Portage Creek, Portage Creek, Sheep Creek, Sixteen Pup, Squaw Creek, Switch Creek, Tommys Pup, Traverse Creek, Twenty-six Pup, Twenty-two Pup, Two-bit Creek,

Valleys:

Discovery Gulch, Nugget Gulch,

Cities:

Circle Hot Springs Station,