Serpentine Hot Springs
Nome (CA) · USGS GNIS name record 1409255
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Original USGS record for Serpentine Hot Springs ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 10/20/2022 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
On Seward Peninsula, right bank of Hot Springs Creek near the headwaters of the Serpentine River, 7 mi NNW of Midnight Mountain and 12 mi N of Taylor, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low.
Mineral springs and site of a settlement. Collier (1902, p. 55), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), notes "Charles McLennan, who with a dog team and Eskimo assistants * * * in May 1900 * * * was the first white man to reach the hot springs." Collier further noted that in September 1901 he found a small settlement at the hot springs. Waring (1917, p. 76), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), referred to this as "Arctic Hot Springs" and noted "A few years ago prospectors built a cabin near the upper spring and a bathhouse over a bathing pool * * *." The name "Serpentine Hot Springs" came into local use and was published in 1951 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
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