Quick Facts
On Seward Peninsula, flows from the SE part of Imuruk Lake in a NE direction to Kugruk Lagoon, at Kotzebue Sound 5.5 mi SE of Cape Deceit, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. 60 miles long.
HistoryEskimo name reported in 1899 as "Koogroog" by Schrader and Brooks (1900, map 3) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This appears to be the stream that Petroff in 1880 named "Mammoth" "from the occurrence of Mammoth bones in the vicinity" (Baker, 1906, p. 424). Reported as "Swan River" in 1901 by D. L. Reaburn (in Mendenhall, 1902, pl. 42), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In 1904, after U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) had completed reconnaissance mapping of Seward Peninsula, attention was called to the fact that three major rivers on the peninsula were named "Kugruk." Action was then taken to change these names. The above river was retained as Kugruk since that is the way it was used in court records. The Kugruk River which flows to the Kuzitrin River was changed to Kougarok River, because as A. J. Collier, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), stated in a letter, "it has always been pronounced locally as Koogarok, and so appears on all claim notices. When I first heard the name in 1900, I fancied that it had reference to th
Burnt River, Inmachuk River, Kugruk River,
Streams:California Creek, Chicago Creek, Iowa Creek, Portage Creek, Smith Creek, Willow Creek,
