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Named locality · AK

Attu

Aleutians West (CA) · USGS GNIS name record 1416083

Approximate USGS name location · 52.9375, 173.2375. This marker does not show a neighborhood boundary.
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USGS GNIS Populated Place names in all 50 states and DC. Features in the historical extract or explicitly named historical are excluded; duplicate decision records with identical identities and coordinates are collapsed. GNIS points identify names, not legal or neighborhood boundaries, current occupancy, school attendance or a statistical population. Nearby Census places and tracts remain separately named geographies. Name completeness and currency vary; this is not a claim to include every locally used neighborhood name.

Original USGS record for Attu

Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 08/29/2019 · NAD83 · approximate source location

USGS description & history

on NW shore of Chichagof Harbor, on NE coast of Attu I., Aleutian Islands.

Aleut village listed in the 1880 census with 107 people; 101 in 1890; 2 1930; and 44 in 1940. The 1944 Aleutian Coast Pilot relates that this village was mostly destroyed in 1943 in connection with U. S. military operations against the Japanese. The U.S. military forces referred to the village as "Chichagof" at that time.

Source notes may describe earlier conditions.
Source files & checksums
USGS GNIS · HistoricalFeatures

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USGS GNIS · FeatureDescriptionHistory

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USGS GNIS · PopulatedPlaces

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