[4] The Erik Lindblom Placer Claim is on Mountain Creek, which is an often dry tributary that joins the Snake River about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) inland from the Snake River's outlet, at Nome, into Norton Sound on the Bering Sea.

The claim is on the "Third Beach", about 79 feet (24 m) above sea level, which is the furthest inland former seafront in the Nome area.

Oddly, ownership of the claim site could not be determined at the time of its NRHP nomination in 1975; the last known owner was "Pioneer Mining Company", more than 50 years before then.

In 1975, the area was back to a "natural state", although debris in the form of mining equipment and domestic implements remained.

[5] In 1899, about 1,000 miners in Nome were idle due to the fact that the entire Anvil Creek had been claimed,[4] (and presumably so had all other known placer mining sites in the area).