channel of Yukon River, heads 8 mi. W of Marshall, flows W to Dogtooth Bend, Yukom-Kuskokwim Delta. 18 miles long.
Riverboat pilots' name shown on a fieldsheet by R. H. Sargent, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1916. So called because the stream's west mouth is in the center of Dogtooth Bend.