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).

Topo Maps

Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome (1950), Nome C-3 (1950), Nome C-3 (1950), Nome (1951), Nome (1951), Nome (1957), Nome C-3 (1975), Nome C-3 SE (2017),
Places Near Quartz Creek
Cities:

Ayak, Aziak, Sunvalluk,

Capes:

West Point,

Islands:

Sledge Island,

Mountains:

Elizabeth Mountain, Rodney Mountain,

Rivers:

Cripple River,

Streams:

Arctic Creek, Ashland Creek, Boulder Creek, Camp Creek, Colorado Creek, Comeni Creek, Dry Creek, Elizabeth Creek, Fox Creek, Granite Creek, Independence Creek, Quartz Creek, Rodney Creek, Rulby Creek, Sidney Creek, Sonora Creek, Stella Creek, Trinity Creek, Washington Creek, Willow Creek,

Valleys:

Green Gulch,