Information About

Beaver Creek

Quick Facts

Region:

Yukon-Koyukuk (CA)

Nearest City:

Fox

Tributary to:

Yukon River

Elevation:

335 ft (102.11 m)

Tributaries:

Bear Creek, Brigham Creek, Colorado Creek, Montana Creek, Moose Creek, Nome Creek, O-Brien Creek, Ophir Creek, Roy Creek, Sheep Creek, Trail Creek, Victoria Creek, Wickersham Creek, Willow Creek,

Tributaries :

Bear Creek, Brigham Creek, Colorado Creek, Montana Creek, Moose Creek, Nome Creek, O-Brien Creek, Ophir Creek, Roy Creek, Sheep Creek, Trail Creek, Victoria Creek, Wickersham Creek, Willow Creek,

About

approx. 715 mi. long; heads in the White Mountains National Recreation Area (Bureau of Land Management), 3.6 mi. NNW of Table Top Mountain, 12 mi. SE of Cache Mountain, flows W, NE, then W through Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge to enter Beaver Slough, a side channel of the Yukon River, 9.5 mi. SSW of Beaver, 9.6 mi. E of Timber Point. Tps16,17,15-9, Rgs1-8E; Tps9-6N, R1W; and Tps6-7, Rgs1-4E, Fairbanks Meridian

History of Beaver Creek

Local name published in 1867 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS); this stream probably was the "Nocotocargut," meaning "mouth of the Nokot," reported in 1867 by the Western Union Telegraph Expedition. A proposal to change the name to the Gwich'in name TsÃ¨enjik River was not approved by the BGN in 2017.