Description
22 miles long in 1961. Heads near Alaska-Canada boundary, at 571500N1321500W, trends SW to its 1961 terminus, 1.5 mi. N of Thomas Bay and 100 mi. E of Sitka, Coast Mts.
History
Named in 1887 by Lieutenant Commander C. M. Thomas, U.S. Navy (USN), for Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1823-87, pioneer American naturalist noted for his studies of North American birds while Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1850-87, and U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 1871-87.