Yankee Fork — Custer County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: custer_id.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Yankee Fork. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. In the northwest part of the county, between latitude 44 degrees 20 minutes and 44 degrees 30 minutes North and Longitude 114 degrees 40 minutes and 114 degrees 45 minutes, is the Yankee Fork District. This district is on the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River and it produced over 266,000 ounces of gold between 1875 and 1959. The General Custer Mine and the Bonanza Mines were big lode producers. The Lucky Boy Mine, which was reopened in 1937, was a big lode producer. Along the Yankee Fork from mouth of Jordan Creek almost to the mouth of the Yankee Fork, was where the most productive placers were in the district. Along Jordan Creek, the stream, bench and terrace gravels produce well for placer gold.