Information About

Poverty Creek

Poverty Creek

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Southeast Fairbanks (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 1260 ft (384.05 m)
About

flows NW to Charley River, 28 mi. SW of that streams junction with Yukon River, Yukon-Tanana High.

History of Poverty Creek

Prospectors name from an unpulbished map by E.J. Chamberlain, dated 1902. In 1956 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) applied this name to a stream Northeast of Essie Creek, instead of one to the south as the Chamberlain map shows it.