What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: on NW coast of Kenai Peninsula, 6 mi. E of Boulder Point and 16 mi. NNE of Kenai, Cook Inlet Low.
"Former Tanaina Indian village reported in 1930 by De Laguna (1934, p. 134). The names ""Titukilsk and Nikishka"" are combined in Ivan Petroff's 1880 Census and pertain to two small villages that had a total population of 57. Correlation of these two names with the present names, ""Nikiski Wharf,"" ""Nikishka No 2,"" and ""Nikishka No. 3,"" has not been possible. It appears that the name ""Nikishka"" was applied several villages north of Kenai, of which Titukilsk may have been one."
Nikishka Number 3appears 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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