Information About

Mineral Creek

Mineral Creek

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Yukon-Koyukuk (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 827 ft (252.07 m)
About

flows N to Woodchopper Creek, 4 mi. SSW of that stream's junction with Yukon River and 41 mi. SE of Circle, Yukon-Tanana High.

History of Mineral Creek

Prospectors' name reported by A. H. Brooks (in Brooks and others, 1907, p. 203), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This stream was "staked" as early as 1898, and by 1906 was the principal placer gold-mining site on Woodchopper Creek.