Description
DeCarey Creek is located in Bendeleben Tms., flows SW to Pargon River near its head, 12 mi. NE of Mount Bendeleben, Seward Peninsula High. The variant Decarey Creek is a typographic error and does not appear in the source cited in this form. 2 miles long.
History
This appears to be the stream shown as "Jefferson" on a map of Cape Nome gold fields by David Fox, Jr., dated 1901. Prospectors' name reported in 1909 by Smith and Eakin (1911, pl. 1), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).