Description
Reed River is located heads at Angiaak Pass, flows S to Kobuk River, 58 mi. NNW of Hughes, Brooks Range
History
Named by Lieutenant Stoney (1900, p. 47, map), U.S. Navy (USN), for Ensign M. L. Reed of his party, who discovered the "Reed River Hot Springs" at the stream's head in March 1886. Stoney gave the Eskimo name for this stream as "An-ne-lag-ag-ge-rack" and "An-e-la-gag-e-rack." In 1885 Lieutenant J. C. Cantwell recorded the Eskimo name as "Ung-ee-let-ar-geeak" and "Ung-ee-le-ganjiak" (Healy, 1887, p. 34).