by CoastView | Aug 16, 2023 | 2023, Communities, Historical, Oregon, Rivers
Prosper is a historical community on the Coquille River, about 10 miles (16 km) west-southwest of Coquille and 3 miles (5 km) northeast and upstream of Bandon, Oregon. The name was likely chosen in the hope the locality would be prosperous. In 1882, the first cannery...
by CoastView | Aug 15, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Historical, Rivers
Bird Creek starts in the Chugach Mountains and flows southwest for 16 miles (26 km) to Turnagain Arm, about 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Anchorage and 12 miles (19 km) west of Girdwood, Alaska. The creek name was used by local miners and first reported in 1900 by...
by CoastView | Aug 14, 2023 | 2023, British Columbia, Historical, Natural History, Rivers
Millstream Creek is a salmon-bearing stream that drains a watershed with an area of 6,424 acres (2,600 ha) of lakes and wetlands over a distance of 8 miles (12.5 km) before it flows into a tidal estuary in Esquimalt Harbour, about 4.8 miles (7.7 km) northwest of...
by CoastView | Aug 14, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Historical
Golden is a historical mining community on Port Wells, a fjord in northwestern Prince William Sound, about 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Valdez and 27 miles (44 km) northeast of Whittier, Alaska. Port Wells was named in 1794 by Captain George Vancouver of the Royal...
by CoastView | Aug 13, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Communities, Headlands, Historical
Cape Fanshaw is a low wooded point at the junction of Stephens Passage and Frederick Sound, about 83 miles (134 km) south of Juneau and 68 miles (110 km) east-northeast of Sitka, Alaska. Cape Fanshaw Light is at the point on a skeleton tower with daymarks 33 feet (10...
by CoastView | Aug 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Communities, Embayments
Divers Cove is a small embayment with a beach at the west end of Heisler Park, about 9.3 miles (15 km) southeast of Newport Beach and 0.7 miles (1.1 km) northwest of Laguna Beach, California. The cove is named for the popular reefs just offshore and accessible to...
