Squirrel River

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Squirrel River | name_native = {{native name|ik|Siksriktuum Kuuŋa}} | name_other = | name_etymology =  | image = Squirrel River.jpg | image_caption = Squirrel River with Baird Mountains | image_size = 300 | map = | map_size = 300 | map_caption = | pushpin_map = USA Alaska | pushpin_map_size = 300 | pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of the Squirrel River in Alaska  | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Alaska | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type4 = Borough | subdivision_name4 = Northwest Arctic | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 =  | length = {{convert|72|mi|km|abbr=on}}<ref name="Place Names">{{cite book|last=Orth|first=Donald J.|author2=United States Geological Survey|title=Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567|url=http://137.229.113.112/webpubs/usgs/p/text/p0567.pdf|format=PDF|via=United States Government Printing Office|publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks|year=1971|orig-year=1967|page=912|access-date=September 16, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017165933/http://137.229.113.112/webpubs/usgs/p/text/p0567.pdf|archive-date=October 17, 2013}}</ref> | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max =  | source1 = Baird Mountains | source1_location = | source1_coordinates= <ref name="gnis"/> | source1_elevation = | mouth = Kobuk River | mouth_location = {{convert|28|mi|km}} northwest of Selawik | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|66|59|00|N|160|24|00|W|display=inline,title}}<ref name="gnis">{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System| publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = March 23, 2001| url = {{gnis3|1896787}} | title = Squirrel River| access-date = September 16, 2013}}</ref> | mouth_elevation = {{convert|30|ft|abbr=on}}<ref name="gnis"/> | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }}

The '''Squirrel River''' (Iñupiaq: ''Siksriktuum Kuuŋa'', Koyukon: ''Tleleyh No’'') is a {{convert|72|mi|km|adj=on}} tributary of the Kobuk River in the U.S. state of Alaska.<ref name="Place Names"/> It is a very clear, small arctic river flowing south from the foothills of Baird Mountains to where it meets the Kobuk River in the village of Kiana.<ref name="DeLorme">{{cite book|title=Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer|publisher=DeLorme|location=Yarmouth, Maine|page=133|edition=7th|year=2010|isbn=978-0-89933-289-5}}</ref> From Kiana, the Kobuk flows southwest into Hotham Inlet of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea.<ref name="DeLorme"/>

The upper segment of the stream runs in a U molded, half-mile wide valley lying between 300-to 400-foot moving slopes. The lower area of stream has a rough track along the north bank that approaches some mining claims on Klery Creek.

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

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Category:Rivers of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska Category:Rivers of Alaska

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