Dogfish Village
Kusilvak (CA) · USGS GNIS name record 1401284
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Original USGS record for Dogfish Village ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 12/07/2010 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
on N bank of Yukon River, 11.5 mi. NE of Russian Mission, Yukon- Kuskokwim Delta.
This name is a form of a translation of the Eskimo name reported in Russian by Lieutenant L. A. Zagoskin, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), in 1842-44, as "Ikaligvigmyut" meaning "fish village people." R. H. Sargent, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), shows Dogfish Village on a 1916 field sheet. This place is probably a fishing camp, now consisting o f about 3 cabins. Most of the inhabitants died of influenza in 1900 (Hrdlicka, 1943, p. 63).
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