What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: on N bank of Kwikpak Pass, 22 mi. N of Kwiguk, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
"Eskimo village, now abandoned, reported in 1879 by US@C&GS as ""Kwikpakamiut,"" meaning ""Kwikpak people."" ""Kwikpak"" is the Eskimo name for one of the major distributary channels of the Yukon River; it is a name often applied to the Yukon itself. This may be the same as the village of Kwikpuk reported in 1899 by US@C&GS at about 624000N1635500W."
Kwikpakappears 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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