Heads at 570100N, 1572530W, flows N to King Salmon River, 0.3 mi W of Mother Goose Lake, on the Alaska Peninsula; Alaska.
Named in 1923 by R. H. Sargent, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for "Al Painter," cook for Sargent's and earlier U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) expeditions.