creek claim † Placer Mining
See 1907 quote.
See also: river claim
- 1900  At the base of the French Hill lay Eldorado Creek, and on a creek claim stood the cabin of Clyde Wharton.
- 1907  In the early days a creek claim extended 500 feet up and down the creek and from rimrock to rimrock in width or, later, from the base of the hill on one side of the valley to the base of the hill on the other side in width.