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Nokogamiut

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท ALASKA

A historical populated place in Kusilvak (CA) County, Alaska, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
Nokogamiut
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
Alaska
County
Kusilvak (CA) County
USGS Map
Saint Michael A-6 SE
Coordinates
63.0455556, -164.5519444
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GNIS Feature ID
1407116

Names and historical notes

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

GNIS description

on E coast of Nokogamiut I., near mouth of Kawanak Pass and 20 mi. N of Kwiguk, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

GNIS historical note

Eskimo village, now abandoned, reported in 1899 by R. L. Farris, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS)

Also recorded as

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1407116. 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.