Information About

Pargon River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Pargon River on The Map

Location

64 ° 59' 30.001" N,
163 ° 5' 57.998" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Golovin

Elevation

98 ft (29.87 m)

Pargon River in Detail.

About

heads in Bendeleben Mts., flows SE to Fish River, 50 mi. NE of Solomon, Seward Peninsula High.

History

Local name derived from the Eskimo standardized in 1910 by Board on Geographic Names (BGN) on the basis of local use. Reported as "Papin" in 1899 by Schrader and Brooks (1900, map 3), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The variant names were used on subsequent mining and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps.