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Topsy Creek

Topsy Creek

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Hoonah-Angoon (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 49 ft (14.94 m)
About

In Glacier Bay National Monument, flows SW to enter the Gulf of Alaska 2 mi SE of Steelhead Creek and 7 mi SE of the entrance to Lituya Bay, 81 mi. NW of Hoonah, St. Elias Mts.

History of Topsy Creek

Local name reported by J. B. Mertie (in Smith and others, 1933, fig. 4), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). It was publsihed as "Steelhead Creek" by members of the Harvard-Dartmouth Expedition, 1933-34, (Washburn and Goldthwait, 1936, map).