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Kilimantavi

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท ALASKA

A historical populated place in North Slope County, Alaska, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
Kilimantavi
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
Alaska
County
North Slope County
USGS Map
Wainwright B-3 NE
Coordinates
70.4827778, -160.4291667
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GNIS Feature ID
1404694

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

GNIS description

Site of Eskimo village, on Chukchi Sea coast, 22.5 km (14 mi) SW of Wainwright; Arctic Plain.

GNIS historical note

this Eskimo name has been variously spelled by authorities for more than 100 years. in Russian by Lieutenant L. A. Zagoskin, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), in 1842-44, as "Kylyamigtagvik," and then in 1861 by P. Tikhmeniev as "S(elenie) Kilametagagmyut," or "Kilametagag people's village," Census recorded the name as "Kolumakturook." Ray's "Barrow Expedition" told Marcus Baker in 1890 that the name is probably derived from that of a throwing weapon like a sling or bola. and "Kilauwitawinmium" (p. 44), and in a letter "Ke-lev-a-tow-tin." With the influence of Baker's Alaska Dictionary" in 1906 the spelling becomes more standardized in a slightly anglicized form, exemplified by the "i" and "ie" endings. abandoned.

Also recorded as

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1404694. 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.

  • Map U.S. Geological Survey 1981-12-31 00:00:00 Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981) Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files.
  • 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.

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.