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The name changed again in 1906 to the Nome Daily Nugget under a similarly named but different owner, Nome Pub. Co. In 1918 it was changed to the Nome Tri-Weekly Nugget, in 1919 it was changed to the Nome Nugget, and in 1934 back to the Nome Daily Nugget. In 1938 the paper's name changed for the final time back to the Nome Nugget.
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Nome Beach Site, Anvil Creek Gold Discovery Site, Snow Creek Placer Claim No. 1 and Erik Lindblom Placer Claim 64°32′58″N 165°24′46″W / 64.54943°N 165.41278°W / 64.54943; -165.41278 ( Cape Nome Mining District Discovery
Alaska Journal of Commerce – Anchorage; Arctic Sounder – Northwest Arctic Borough and North Slope Borough (under Anchorage Daily News) Bristol Bay Times – Bristol Bay (under Anchorage Daily News) Capital City Weekly – Juneau (under Juneau Empire) Chilkat Valley News – Haines; Cordova Times – Cordova; The Delta Discovery – Bethel
An aerial view of Nome, Alaska, in July 2006. Nome is located at (64.503889, −165.399444 According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.6 square miles (56 km 2), of which 12.5 square miles (32 km 2) is land and 9.1 square miles (23.6 km 2) (41.99%) is water.
Water from the Miocene Ditch was crucial for mining placer gold deposits in important creeks near Nome. It was used on Anvil Creek, in the Snake River drainage, and on Dexter Creek, a tributary of the Nome River. At least in the early years, mining on Dexter Creek was highly dependent on this water (Nome Nugget 1902; [6] Nome News 1903 [7]).