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Akmiut

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท ALASKA

A historical populated place in Bethel (CA) County, Alaska, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
Akmiut
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
Alaska
County
Bethel (CA) County
USGS Map
Sleetmute C-7 SW
Coordinates
61.5166667, -158.5833333
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GNIS Feature ID
1893230

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

GNIS description

on left bank of Kuskokwim River near mouth of Holokuk River, Kilbuck-Kuskokwim Mts.

GNIS historical note

Former Eskimo village listed as Akmute on the 1880 Census map. J. E. Spurr and W. S. Post, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), who passed the site in 1898 did not mention it.

Also recorded as

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1893230. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.

GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.

  • Text Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.