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Uknodok

A vanished town in Aleutians West (CA) County, Alaska.

Survey record — verification pendingFILED: AK

Uknodok

Aleutians West (CA) County, Alaska

records pending
Classification
Vanished town (federal archive)
Coordinates
53.9000° N, 166.5667° W

What the record shows

The federal survey describes the site: on Hog I. in Unalaska Bay, on N coast of Unalaska I., Aleutian Islands.

"Former Aleut village or camp published as ""Ukunadok"" by Reverend Coxe (1787, p. 167). Reported as ""Uknadak"" by Father Veniaminov (1840, v. 1, p. 188), who wrote that the village was the site of a dispute between the Unalaskans and the Aleuts from Unimak in which the latter were exterminated."

Uknodokappears 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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