Information About

Quartz Creek

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Quartz Creek on The Map

Location

64 ° 33' 36" N,
166 ° 0' 6.001" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Nome

Tributary to

Norton Sound

Elevation

13 ft (3.96 m)

Quartz Creek in Detail.

About

flows S to Norton Sound, 19 mi. NW of Nome, Seward Peninsula High.

History

Prospectors' name reported in 1900 by E. C. Barnard (in Brooks, 1901, pl. 17), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).