American River (Wash.
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Name (Latin)
American River (Wash. : River)
Other forms of name
Miners Creek (Yakima County, Wash.)
Coordinates
-121.46 -121.46 46.81944444 46.81944444 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Rivers Washington (State)
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q3564307
Library of congress:
sh2003004575
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Brettmann, K.L. An investigation of the hydrologic sensitivities to climate : a case study for the American River, Washington, 1990.
- Wash. place names database, via WWW, Jan. 29, 2003(American River (Ts.16,17N;Rs.11-14E) - The American River rises at the eastern side of the crest of the Cascades in forks north and south of Chinook Pass in northwest Yakima County. It flows east by north about twenty miles to the Naches River near Sawmill Flat. An early name of the river was Miners Creek. As the area developed a patriotic title which was not used for other rivers in the state was chosen. Gossett (p. 455) writes that it was named for the American River in California "...by hopeful miners...")
- GNIS, Jan. 29, 2003(American River, stream, Wash., Yakima Co., variant names: Miner Creek, Miners Creek; also American River, pop. place, Yakima Co.; also another Miner Creek in Yakima Co. and variant name for Minter Creek; also Miners Creek in many counties)