Sumdum
A historical populated place in Hoonah-Angoon (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
population 42 (1890), at head of Sanford Cove on S shore of Endicott Arm, 8 mi. SE of Harbor I. and 55 mi. SE of Juneau, Coast Mts.
GNIS historical note
Former mining town named for Sumdum Glacier; Sumdum post office was intermittently maintained here from 1897 to 1942 (Ricks, 1965, p. 62). This may be the same Sumdum which Hodge (1910, p. 649), Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), listed as a Tlingit Indian village located at Port Houghton. He noted the population in 1868 as 150.
Also recorded as
- Samdan
- Slaodan
- Soundun
- Sundowns
Source editions and recorded citations
Feature ID 1415067. 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 1967-12-31 00:00:00 Washington, DC: GPO 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.