Information About

Killik River

Killik River

Quick Facts
Region:
  • North Slope
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 548 ft (167.03 m)
Tributaries :
About

formed by April and Kakivilak Creeks at 680200N1543000W, flows N 105 mi. to Colville River, 52 mi. SW of Umiat; Arctic Slope.

History of Killik River

this Eskimo name first appears about 1885 on a manuscript map drawn on wrapping paper by a Barrow Eskimo. reported in 1901 by W. J. Peters and F. C. Schrader, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Modern Eskimo pronounces the stream name "Kitlik," and the people who once lived in the stream's valley are called Kitlikmiut (Rausch, 1951, p. 150, 158).