What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: village site near head of Ikpikpuk River; Ak.
Ensign W. L. Howard stopped at this village from May 23 to 30, 1886, on his way from Ft. Cosmos to Point Barrow. consisted of 30 tents and 150 Eskimos (Stoney, 1900, p. 71-72). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Expedition of 1924 could find no signs of this settlement (Smith and Mertie, 1930, p. 110).
Kigalikappears 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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