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Kah Shakes

A vanished town in Ketchikan Gateway County, Alaska.

Survey record — verification pendingFILED: AK

Kah Shakes

Ketchikan Gateway County, Alaska

records pending
Classification
Vanished town (federal archive)
Coordinates
55.0417° N, 130.9750° W

What the record shows

The federal survey describes the site: on shore of Kah Shakes Cove, near entrance to Boca de Quadra, Coast Mts.

"Former Tlingit Indian village named for Kah Shakes, the chief of the village; published ""Kah Shakes Cove,"" in the 1890 Census (p. 25). In the 1880 Census Petroff (1884, p. 32) reported ""Kashs Village,"" population 49, located here, and ""Shakes Village,"" population 38, on nearby Etolin Island. See Shakes Village."

Kah Shakesappears in the U.S. Geological Survey's place-name archive as a historical populated place — a settlement that once carried a name and no longer does. Our editors are verifying its full story against census records, newspaper archives, and county histories; this record will grow as sources are confirmed.

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