Information About

Nugget Creek

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Nugget Creek on The Map

Location

65 ° 11' 26.002" N,
142 ° 17' 43.001" W

Region

Southeast Fairbanks (CA)

Nearest City

Chicken

Elevation

948 ft (288.95 m)

Nugget Creek in Detail.

About

flows NE to Washington Creek, 17 mi. SE of junction of Charley and Yukon Rivers, Yukon-Tanana High.

History

Prospectors name recorded by D. C. Witherspoon, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1904-05 and published by Prindle (1906), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Brooks (1907, p. 201), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), referred to the feature as Nugget Gulch.