Information About

Poverty Creek

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Poverty Creek on The Map

Location

65 ° 2' 49.999" N,
143 ° 15' 56.999" W

Region

Southeast Fairbanks (CA)

Nearest City

Circle

Elevation

1260 ft (384.05 m)

Poverty Creek in Detail.

About

flows NW to Charley River, 28 mi. SW of that streams junction with Yukon River, Yukon-Tanana High.

History

Prospectors name from an unpulbished map by E.J. Chamberlain, dated 1902. In 1956 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) applied this name to a stream Northeast of Essie Creek, instead of one to the south as the Chamberlain map shows it.