site of a mining camp, at mouth of Slate Creek, on E bank of Middle Fork Koyukuk River, 11 mi. S of Wiseman, Brooks Range
Marshall (1933, p. 39) wrote, "As early as 1899 the town of Slate Creek was started at the mouth of the creek which bears that name. In the summer of 1900 one of the waves of green stampeders got as far up the Koyukuk as this point, then got cold feet, turned around, and departed. This incident was enough to change the first, unromantic appellation of the settlement to Coldfoot." A post office was established here in 1902 and discontinued in 1912 (Ricks, 1965, p. 14). According to Marshall (p. 39) in 1902, Coldfoot, consisted of "one gambling hole, two roadhouses, two stores, seven saloons, and ten prostitutes." Activity subsided when the mining activity moved upstream to Nolan and Wiseman Creeks, and a new town, called Wiseman, was established about 1912.
Cathedral Mountain, Emma Dome, Kalhabuk Mountain, Midnight Dome,
Mountain Passes:Glacier Pass, Pasco Pass, Rosie Creek Pass, Sitkum Pass,
Rivers:Streams:Clara Creek, Cow Creek, Emma Creek, Granite Creek, Hidden Creek, Howard Creek, Japanese Creek, Larson Creek, Marion Creek, Minnie Creek, Moose Creek, Myrtle Creek, Nolan Creek, Pasco Creek, Porcupine Creek, Quartz Creek, Rosie Creek, Sawyer Creek, Slate Creek, Smith Creek, Snowshoe Creek, Twelvemile Creek, Wilson Creek, Wiseman Creek,
Valleys:Bluff Gulch, Confederate Gulch, Coon Gulch, Drinking Cup Gulch, Dry Gulch, Kelly Gulch, Montana Gulch, Nutmeg Gulch, Union Gulch,
Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings
Violet-green Swallow, Green-winged Teal, Bank Swallow, Mallard, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Cliff Swallow, White-crowned Sparrow, Pacific Loon, Black-capped Chickadee, Common Redpoll, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Semipalmated Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper, Common Raven, Tree Swallow, Townsend's Solitaire, Swainson's Thrush, Canvasback, Bufflehead, Horned Grebe, Spotted Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Common Gull, Say's Phoebe, Boreal Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Dark-eyed Junco, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Northern Shoveler, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Spruce Grouse, Wilson's Snipe, Solitary Sandpiper, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Merlin, Alder Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Northern Shrike, Gray Jay, Arctic Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Varied Thrush, Gray-cheeked Thrush, American Robin, Northern Wheatear, Bohemian Waxwing, Pine Grosbeak, White-winged Crossbill, American Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird, Northern Waterthrush, Blackpoll Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Wilson's Warbler