Description
On Seward Peninsula, heads in a lake at 652005N, 1630110W, flows NNE to Koyuk River, 3 mi NE of Sturgeon Ridge and 13 mi SSE of Imuruk Lake.
History
So named in 1950 by D. M. Hopkins, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), "because of the proximity of the creek to Sturgeon Ridge."