Ketchikan Creek

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Ketchikan Creek (alternate, "Fish Creek"; Tlingit, "Kitschkhin") is a salmon spawning stream{{cite web

|accessdate=2022-09-19 |url=https://www.alaska.org/detail/ketchikan-creek-falls

|title=Ketchikan Creek & Falls |publisher=alaska.org}} on Revillagigedo Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads in a lake and travels through downtown Ketchikan{{cite web|accessdate=2022-09-19

|url=https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=southeastviewing.ketchikandowntownketchikan

|title=Ketchikan Wildlife Viewing: Downtown Ketchikan|publisher=Alaska Department of Fish and Game}}

{{convert|6|mi}} to Tongass Narrows.{{cite book|title=Geological Survey Professional Paper|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_a-gqAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_a-gqAQAAIAAJ/page/n523 511]–}} The historic Creek Street in Ketchikan runs along the creek banks as a piling-perched boardwalk.{{cite web|title=Creek Street Ketchikan, Alaska|url=http://creekstreetketchikan.com/|publisher=Fish Creek Company|accessdate=10 November 2013}}

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Category:Ketchikan, Alaska

Category:Rivers of Alaska

Category:Rivers of Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska

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