Description
Pargon River is located heads in Bendeleben Mts., flows SE to Fish River, 50 mi. NE of Solomon, Seward Peninsula High.
History
Local name derived from the Eskimo standardized in 1910 by Board on Geographic Names (BGN) on the basis of local use. Reported as "Papin" in 1899 by Schrader and Brooks (1900, map 3), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The variant names were used on subsequent mining and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps.