Ketchikan Creek

Ketchikan Creek (alternate, "Fish Creek"; Tlingit, "Kitschkhin") is a salmon spawning stream[1] on Revillagigedo Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads in a lake and travels through downtown Ketchikan[2] 6 miles (9.7 km) to Tongass Narrows.[3] The historic Creek Street in Ketchikan runs along the creek banks as a piling-perched boardwalk.[4]

Ketichikan Creek and Creek Street
View of Ketchikan from Ketchikan Creek, September 1918
Seine fishing on Ketchikan Creek, early 20th century photo by John Nathan Cobb

References
  1. "Ketchikan Creek & Falls". alaska.org. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  2. "Ketchikan Wildlife Viewing: Downtown Ketchikan". Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  3. Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1967. pp. 511–.
  4. "Creek Street Ketchikan, Alaska". Fish Creek Company. Retrieved 10 November 2013.

55.3408°N 131.6397°W / 55.3408; -131.6397



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