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Belcaro

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท ALASKA

A historical populated place in Copper River County, Alaska, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
Belcaro
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
Alaska
County
Copper River County
USGS Map
Valdez D-7 SE
Coordinates
61.8623542, -146.3189069
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GNIS Feature ID
1893585

Names and historical notes

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

GNIS description

"(established in August, 1899), about 50 miles north of Valdez, Prince William sound. It was discontinued in 1900"

GNIS historical note

(Baker, 1906, p. 126). A post office was maintained from 1899 to 1900 (Ricks, 1965, p. 6).

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1893585. 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.