Imagnee
A historical populated place in Aleutians West (CA) County, Alaska, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.
Location Record
Names and historical notes
Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.
GNIS description
on Summer Bay on E shore of Unalaska Bay, Unalaska I., Aleutian Islands.
GNIS historical note
Former Aleut village reported by Father Vemiaminov (1840, v. 1, p. 184) as "Imagninskoe" with a population of 32 in 1830. The 1880 Census listed it as "Imagnak" with 34 people. Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 14), on Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), a 1790 map, gives the village name as "Sinagyna."
Also recorded as
- Imagnak
- Imagninskoe
- Sinagnia
- Sinagnya
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1894834. 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.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.