Information About

Bering River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Bering River on The Map

Location

60 ° 9' 59" N,
144 ° 14' 58.999" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Chitina

Length

20 mi (32.19 km)

Elevation

10 ft (3.05 m)

Bering River in Detail.

About

heads at bering Glacier terminus, flows SW to Controller Bay, 57 mi. ESE of Cordova, Malaspina Coastal Plain. 20 miles long.

History

Local name; reported in 1903 by G. C. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Named "Rio de Lagartos" in July, 1779, by Don Ignacio Arteaga. "Arteaga, however, did not reach this stream, so the name must have had some other source than any knowledge he had that there were lagartos, 'lizard' in it", (Wagner, 1937, p. 466). George Davidson, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), called it "Chilkaht" in the 1869 Coast Pilot (p. 146), for the Chilkat subdivision of Tlingit Indians.