Katkwaahltu
A historical populated place in Haines 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 Chilkat River, 6 mi. above its mouth," St. Elias Mts.
GNIS historical note
Former Tlingit Indian town listed as "Kutkwutlu" with a population of 125 in the 1880 Census by Ivan Petroff; reported in 1904 as "qatq!wa'altu'," meaning "town on the point of a hill," by wj. R. Swanton, Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE).
Also recorded as
- Katkwaltu
- Kutkwutlu
- Qatq!wa'altu'
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1895066. 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.