Information About

Spooner

Quick Facts

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Location

65 ° 22' 59.999" N,
164 ° 13' 0.001" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

White Mountain

Elevation

108 ft (32.92 m)

Spooner in Detail.

About

at junction of Noxapaga and Kuzitrin Rivers, 32 mi. SW of Imuruk Lake, Seward Peninsula High.

History

Site of a mining camp established about 1901 at the beginning of gold mining in the region; reported that year by Gerdine (in Collier, 1902, pl. 12), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The Spooner Post Office was established in 1902 and discontinued in 1903 (Ricks, 1965, p. 60). By 1906, the name was left off maps.

Topo Maps

Bendeleben B-5 (1950), Bendeleben B-5 (1950), Bendeleben B-5 (1950), Bendeleben (1950), Bendeleben (1950), Bendeleben (1950), Bendeleben (1950), Bendeleben (1950), Bendeleben (1950), Bendeleben (1951), Bendeleben (1951), Bendeleben (1964), Bendeleben B-5 NE (2017),
Places Near Spooner
Cities:

Spooner,

Capes:

Seward Peninsula,

Flats:

Kuzitrin Flats,

Mountains:

Mount Bendeleben,

Rivers:

East Fork Noxapaga River, Noxapaga River,

Streams:

Andesite Creek, Birch Creek, Black Creek, Bluff Creek, Bonanza Creek, Boulder Creek, Buzzard Creek, Delome Creek, Ella Creek, Frost Creek, Garfield Creek, Gillette Creek, Goodall Creek, Goose Creek, Grouse Creek, Humboldt Creek, Little Garfield Creek, Mabel Creek, Mascot Creek, Minnie Creek, Skookum Creek, Summit Creek, Turner Creek, Winona Creek,

Valleys:

Black Gulch,