What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: on E bank of Tolstoi Creek N of its junction with Mastodon Creek and 23 mi. NW of Ophir, Kilbuck-Kuskokwim Mts.
Boat landing and supply camp for the Mastodon Creek diggins established about 1916. It had a post office in 1917 and 1918. It is now abandoned.
Tolstoiappears 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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