Nuchek
A historical populated place in Chugach 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 Hinchinbrook I., on N shore of Port Etches, 35 mi. SW of Cordova; Chugach Mts.
GNIS historical note
site of an abandoned Eskimo village (Hodge, 1910, p. 90). The Russians built a stockade post here about 1793 called "Fort Konstantine" probably named for Grand Duke Constantine, the younger brother of Czar Alexander II. 1880 was 74, in 1890, 145.
Also recorded as
- Fort Konstantine
- Helena
- Konstantinovsk
- Natcheek
- Natchek
- Noocheek
- Nutschek
- Nuuciq
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1424021. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.
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- 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.
- Website Alaska Native Language Archive www.uaf.edu/anla 2011-12-31 00:00:00
Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.