Description
Eagle River is located heads in unnamed lake S of 1962 terminus of Eagle Glacier and flows SW to unnamed bay on Favorite Channel, 2 mi. N of Dotsons Landing and 20 mi. NW of Juneau, Coast Mts. 5 miles long.
History
Name derived from Eagle Glacier, which it drains, and published in 1906 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Spencer and Wright, p. 129). Early miners called this stream Glacier River and Sitk Creek (DeArmond, 1957, p. 17).