Bluff, Alaska

Bluff, also known as Agookauchuk (Iġukuchiq in Iñupiaq), was a 20th-century mining town in Nome Census Area, Alaska. It was built at the mouth of Daniels Creek on the north shore of Norton Sound on the Seward Peninsula in the summer of 1900, as a result of the Nome Gold Rush.[1][2] The town was located 55 miles (89 km) southeast of Nome.[3] The settlement was served by a post office for eighteen years, from 1901 to 1919.[4]

Bluff

Iġukuchiq
Ghost Town
Road House Saloon, Bluff City, Alaska, photograph by Beverly Bennett Dobbs
Bluff
Location in Alaska
Coordinates: 64°34′22″N 163°45′15″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlaska
BoroughNome
Elevation
59 ft (18 m)
Time zoneUTC-9 (Alaska (AKST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-8 (AKDT)
ZIP code
99762
Area code907
FIPS code02-08445
GNIS feature ID1399220

Demographics
Historical population
CensusPop.%±
194019—
U.S. Decennial Census[5]

Bluff appeared once on the 1940 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village.[6] It has not appeared since. A few buildings are still extant at the townsite.[7]

References
  1. https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1399220,Bluff
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr9RAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=%22Agaligamute%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=bluff%3A%20locality&f=false p. 147
  3. "Bluff, Alaska". alaskagoldrush.info. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  4. "Bluff". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  5. "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  6. https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/33973538v1ch11.pdf
  7. https://www.google.com/maps/place/64%C2%B034'20.5%22N+163%C2%B045'26.5%22W/@64.5720877,-163.7561739,330m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d64.5723542!4d-163.7573732


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