2016 Map of Tanana A-3 SE

About this map

American Creek Airport serves as a lone landmark in this landscape defined by interior Alaskan drainage basins and mineral exploration history. The map detail highlights a series of named drainages including American Cr, Woodchopper Cr, and Patterson Cr that carve through the high terrain. Geologically and historically significant features such as Colorado Gulch, New York Gulch, and California Gulch suggest a legacy of prospecting and hydraulic activity common to this region of the Yukon-Koyukuk. The distribution of these gulches around the upper reaches of American Cr indicates a concentrated area of interest for early 21st-century topography. Remote and largely uninhabited, the area is accessible primarily by air, with the airstrip positioned as a vital link between the complex network of creeks like Eldorado Cr and Value Cr and the wider Alaskan interior.