Chimekliak
Bethel (CA) · USGS GNIS name record 1893918
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Original USGS record for Chimekliak ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 06/07/2022 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
1 mi. NE of Beacon Point, on left bank of Kuskokwim River, 50 mi. SW of Bethel, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Eskimo village reported on an 1898 fieldsheet by W. S. Post, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as "Chim-e-kliag-a-mut"; name was obtained from J. H. Kilbuck, Moravian missionary. "This may be identical with "Chenik" of a Russian Admiralty chart of 1802" (Baker, 1906, p. 178). Ivan Petroff, in the 1880 U.S. Census calls it "Chimiagamute" with 71 people; the 1890 Census lists it as "Chimingyangamute" with 40 people.
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