Kigalik
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
village site near head of Ikpikpuk River; Ak.
GNIS historical note
Ensign W. L. Howard stopped at this village from May 23 to 30, 1886, on his way from Ft. Cosmos to Point Barrow. consisted of 30 tents and 150 Eskimos (Stoney, 1900, p. 71-72). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Expedition of 1924 could find no signs of this settlement (Smith and Mertie, 1930, p. 110).
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1895118. 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.