Ishiuk
A historical populated place in North Slope 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
at Howard Pass or perhaps near Lake Etivluk, Brooks Range
GNIS historical note
An Eskimo village visted by Lieutenant Stoney (1900, p. 39), U.S. Navy (USN), in December 1885 and reported as "Issheyuk, a village of fifteen huts, situated near the northern limit of the mountain range," Irving (1954, p. 204) mentions an area on the Nigu River presently called "Issygok," a name comparable to Stoney's "Issheyuk." See Issygok Lake.
Also recorded as
- Issheyuk
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1894887. 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.