Kaviak
A historical populated place in Nome (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
near head of Imuruk Basin, 25 mi. E of Teller, Seward Peninsula High.
GNIS historical note
Site of an Eskimo village. Lieutenant L. A. Zagoskin, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), 1842-44, wrote the name of the village as "Kaviag-miut" and said it meant "Fox." Members of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition spelled the name variously in the "Esquimaux," their monthly newspaper published at Teller, 1866-67. In the 10th Census, in 1880, Petroff (1884, p. 11) listed a population of 200 Eskimo. The 11th Census, in 1890, (p. 130) included "Kaviagmiut" in the Port Clarence village. Subsequent censuses have not recorded this village.
Also recorded as
- Kavaihazakmute
- Kaviagamute
- Kaviagemut
- Kaviagmut
- Kaviarazakhm ute
- Kaviarazkhmute
- Kaviarzakhmute
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1895074. 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.