Information About

Post River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Post River on The Map

Location

62 ° 24' 41" N,
153 ° 28' 32.002" W

Region

Yukon-Koyukuk (CA)

Nearest City

Nikolai

Length

45 mi (72.42 km)

Elevation

1201 ft (366.06 m)

Post River in Detail.

About

heads at a glacier, 3.6 mi. W of Strand Pass, flows N to South Fork Kuskokwim River, 79 mi. SE of Mcgrath, Alaska Range

History

Named in 1902 by A.H. Brooks, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for W.S. Post, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), who descended the Kuskokwim River with J.E. Spurr in 1898.