Quick Facts
on NW coast of Seward Peninsula, 2 mi. NE of Cape Prince of Wales and 52 mi. NW of Teller, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low.
HistoryNamed in 1900 by A. H. Brooks, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for "Reverend William Thomas Lopp, of Indiana, a missionary to the Eskimo, who began work here in 1890" (Baker, 1906, p. 413). According to Schrader and Brooks (1900, p. 25), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Lopp was in charge of a U.S. government reindeer station in 1899 and employed Kivyearzuk, the Eskimo who discovered gold in the Cape York region.
Baituk Creek, Banner Creek, Boulder Creek, Buckner Creek, Cape Creek, Carmen Creek, Clear Creek, Dry Creek, Eureka Creek, Flat Creek, Fremont Creek, Goodwin Creek, Granite Creek, Ishut Creek, Jarvis Creek, Justice Creek, Kigezruk Creek, Lagoon Creek, Lynx Creek, Manna Creek, Moonlight Creek, Oakland Creek, Ocean Creek, Paulina Creek, Potato Creek, Prince of Wales Creek, Red Fox Creek, Village Creek,
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