Information About

Shorty Creek

Quick Facts

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Location

61 ° 45' 46.001" N,
149 ° 29' 20" W

Region

Matanuska-Susitna

Nearest City

Wasilla

Elevation

2110 ft (643.13 m)

Shorty Creek in Detail.

About

heads in lake, flows SW to Willow Creek, W of Craigie Creek, 17 mi. NW of Palmer, Talkeetna Mts.

History

Local name reported in 1913 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Brooks and others, 1914, fig. 2).

Places Near Shorty Creek
Cities:

Wasilla,

Dams:

Memory Lake Estates Dam Number 1, Memory Lake Estates Dam Number 2,

Lakes:

Anderson Lake, Baptist Pond, Baptist Pond, Bench Lake, Beverly Lake, Beverly Lake, Black Lake, Blodgett Lake, Bruce Lake, Bruns Lake, Chignaki Pond, Cloudy Lake, Cloudy Lake, Corcoran Lake, Cottonwood Lake, Dry Lake, Dusk Lake, Emerald Lake, Finger Lake, Fuller Lake, Golden Lake, Hart Lake, Herkimer Lake, Herning Lake, Hess Lake, Island Lake, Jacobsen Lake, Jaland Lake, June Lake, Kalmbach Lake, Kennedy Lake, Kings Lake, Lake Lalen, Lilly Lake, Lucile Lake, Meadow Lakes, Meier Lake, Memory Lake, Merri Belle Lake, Mud Lake, Mud Lake, Mud Lake, Paradise Lake, Railroad Lake, Rainbow Lake, Reed Lake, Scott Lake, Summit Lake, Totuck Lake, Visnaw Lake, Wallace Lake, Wasilla Lake, Wolf Lake,

Locales:

7 Sacred Chutes, April Bowl, Baby Ruth, Bennet's Ridge, Black Prospect, Eldorodo Bowl, Face of Hatch, Fairangel Cirque Gully, Gold Chord Death Traverse, Lake Run, Nixon's Nose, Rock Garden, Seldom Seen, Sunnyside, Sunnyside of Hatch, The Lost Couloir, Valley of Sin, Wimp Bowl, Womens Run,

Mountains:

Bullion Mountain, Government Peak, Skyscraper Mountain,

Parks:

Independence Mine State Historical Park,

Mountain Passes:

Birthday Pass, Dogsled Pass, Friendship Pass, Hatcher Pass,

Peaks:

Fairangel Cirque, Fairangel Peak, Gold Chord, Granite Mountain, Hatch Peak, Luck Peak, Pass Peak, Top Peak,

Ridges:

Bald Mountain Ridge, Murphy Ridge,

Streams:

Canyon Creek, Coal Creek, Cottonwood Creek, Craigie Creek, East Fork Fishhook Creek, East Fork Sawmill Creek, Francie Creek, Government Creek, Grubstake Creek, Homestake Creek, Moon Princess Creek, Purches Creek, Sawmill Creek, Sevenmile Creek, Shorty Creek, Upper Willow Creek, West Fork, West Fork Grubstake Creek, West Fork Sawmill Creek,

Routes:

April Bowl Trail, Assay Spur Trail, Blueberry Knoll Trail, Gold Cord Lake Trail, Hard Rock 2 Trail, Hard Rock Trail, Hatcher Pass Snowmobile Trail 2, Hatcher Pass Winter Maintenance Trail, Independence Mine Trail, Martin Mill Trail, Mill Loop Trail, Rae-Wallace Mine Trail, Snow Trail to Lodge,

Valleys:

Cable Valley, Grubstake Gulch, West Fork Grubstake Gulch, Wet Gulch,

Cities:

Lucky Shot Landing, Meadow Lakes, Tanaina,