What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: site of a village near Katmai Bay, on S ocast of Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument 16 mi. S of Mount Katmai, Aleutian Range
"This once important Eskimo village was reported by von Krusenstern (1827, map 17), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as ""Katmay."" The 10th Census in 1880 lists a population of 218; 11th Census in 1890 lists 132. Katmai was abondoned following the 1912 eruption of Mount Katmai and the people were resettled in Perryville, near Mitrofania Bay."
Katmaiappears 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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