Description
Kwethluk River is located heads at 600500N1600000W, flows NW to Kuskokuak Slough, 10 mi. E of Bethel, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
History
Eskimo name shown as "Kwiklimut," meaning "Kwikli (river) people," and "Kwikluk" on an 1898 fieldsheet by W. S. Post, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), according to information obtained from J. H. Kilbuck, Moravian missionary. The present spelling was used by A. G. Maddren (in Brooks, 1915, p. 355), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).