Shovel Creek is a waterway in the U.S. state of Alaska, near Nome.
It flows into Solomon River from the west about 4 miles (6 km) from the coast.
Although not a very long stream, it has a large drainage area and carries during ordinary seasons about 500 inches (1,300 cm) of water.
The bed rock of the Shovel Creek basin consists for the most part of limestones and calcareous mica schists.
The gravel was washed in a revolving trommel from which the screened material went directly to the sluices and the oversize to a belt stacker.