Helpmejack Creek

{{short description|River tributary in Alaska, the United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

'''Helpmejack Creek''' is a stream in Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Alatna River.<ref>{{GNIS|1403310}}</ref>

==History== The name Helpmejack recalls the plea for help of someone who was stuck in the creek.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19701015&id=XzIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VSgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7216,2930074&hl=en | title=From Sleepy Eye to Chicken Bristle, USA | work=The Milwaukee Journal | date=15 October 1970 | accessdate=22 April 2015 | author=Scriba, Jay | archive-date=25 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925015124/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19701015&id=XzIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VSgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7216,2930074&hl=en | url-status=dead }}</ref> A member of the United States Geological Survey officially recorded the old prospectors' name in 1902.<ref>{{cite book|last=Orth|first=Donald J.|title=Dictionary of Alaska Place Names|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0y48AQAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0y48AQAAMAAJ/page/n427 415]}}</ref>

==See also== *List of rivers of Alaska

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Rivers of Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska Category:Rivers of Alaska Category:Rivers of Unorganized Borough, Alaska