Information About

Meehan

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Meehan on The Map

Location

65 ° 4' 27.998" N,
147 ° 12' 46.001" W

Region

Fairbanks North Star

Nearest City

North Pole

Elevation

1168 ft (356.01 m)

Meehan in Detail.

About

4.3 km (3 mi) NW of Fairbanks Camp Creek, 0.8 km (0.5 mi) W of Alder Creek Camp on the N bank of Fairbanks Creek between Crane Creek and Alder Creek, 35.4 km (22 mi) NE of Fairbanks, Yukon-Tanana High.

History

Name published in 1907 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as Mehan, an abandoned gold dredging camp. The settlement began about 1905 (Kitchner, 1954, p. 297) and was named by prospectors for an early miner, Pat Meehan. A post office was established here in 1906 and maintained until 1942 (Ricks, 1965, p. 41).

Topo Maps

Livengood (1945), Livengood (1945), Livengood (1945), Livengood (1945), Livengood (1951), Livengood (1951), Livengood A-1 (1952), Livengood A-1 (1952), Livengood A-1 (1952), Livengood A-1 (1954), Livengood A-1 (1954), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood (1956), Livengood A-1 SE (1992),
Places Near Meehan
Cities:

Cleary, Meehan,

Cliffs:

Bluff Number 2, Bluff Number Two, Pilot Bluff,

Mountains:

Coffee Dome, Fourth of July Hill, Gilmore Dome,

Ridges:

Little Chena Prong,

Streams:

Alder Creek, Alder Creek, All Gold Creek, Anaconda Creek, Barnes Creek, Bear Creek, Belle Creek, Bellows Creek, Boston Creek, Camp Creek, Captain Creek, Caribou Creek, Chatham Creek, Clark Creek, Conner Creek, Crane Creek, Cripple Creek, Crooked Creek, Deep Creek, Fairbanks Creek, Ginger Creek, Goose Creek, Heim Creek, Hopper Creek, Iowa Creek, Johnson Creek, Juniper Creek, Kokomo Creek, Last Chance Creek, Long Creek, McKay Creek, Melba Creek, Monopoly Creek, Monte Cristo Creek, Moose Creek, Nugget Creek, Pearl Creek, Pilot Creek, Portage Creek, Rex Creek, Rusty Gold Creek, Sixteen-to-one Creek, Slippery Creek, Smallwood Creek, Solo Creek, Tamarack Creek, Tecumseh Creek, Too Much Gold Creek, Too Much Gold Creek, Vadine Creek, Victoria Creek, Walnut Creek, Wolf Creek, Yellow Pup Creek,

Routes:

Lower Nome Creek Trail,

Valleys:

Dark Hollow, Dream Gulch, Gay Gulch, Snow Gulch,

Cities:

Two Rivers,