Description
Balm of Gilead Gulch is located trends NE to Crooked Creek which flows to Ophir Creek, 8 mi. N of Council and 16 mi. SE of Mount Bendeleben, Seward Peninsula Highlands. 1 mile long.
History
Prospectors' name reported in 1906 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologists (in Collier and others, 1908, p.254), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Reported as "Balm" on a map of Cape Nome gold fields by David Fox, Jr., dated 1901.