Description
Spooner (historical) is located at junction of Noxapaga and Kuzitrin Rivers, 32 mi. SW of Imuruk Lake, Seward Peninsula High.
History
Site of a mining camp established about 1901 at the beginning of gold mining in the region; reported that year by Gerdine (in Collier, 1902, pl. 12), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The Spooner Post Office was established in 1902 and discontinued in 1903 (Ricks, 1965, p. 60). By 1906, the name was left off maps.