Description
Bonanza Creek is located flows E to North Fork Salcha River, 10 mi. E of The Butte and 45 mi. NNE of Big Delta, Yukon-Tanana High.; 8 miles long.
History
A prospectors' name, applied by mistake in 1905 by D. C. Witherspoon, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to a stream which flows N to Gold Creek near Flume Creek (Prindle, 1906, pl. 1). In 1913, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published the name "Bonanza Creek" for its present location.