Information About

Douglas River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Douglas River on The Map

Location

59 ° 4' 0.001" N,
153 ° 45' 22" W

Region

Kenai Peninsula

Nearest City

Newhalen

Length

28 mi (45.06 km)

Douglas River in Detail.

About

heads at 584800N1534800W, flows N to Kamishak Bay, 25 mi. SW of Augustine I., Aleutian Range. 28 miles long.

History

Local name reported in 1904 by G. C. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). It was also locally called Andrews River (Brooks and others, 1905, p. 138). This is probably the same stream shown by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 5), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "R(eka) Chuyu," i.e. "Chuyu River."

Topo Maps

Iliamna A-3 (1951), Iliamna A-3 (1951), Iliamna A-3 (1951), Iliamna (1952), Iliamna (1952), Iliamna (1952), Iliamna (1952), Iliamna (1957), Iliamna (1957), Iliamna (1957), Iliamna (1957), Iliamna (1957), Iliamna (1957), Iliamna (1957),
Places Near Douglas River
Bays:

Kamishak Bay,

Rivers:

Douglas River,