Chimekliak, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States
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- Chimekliak
- Unincorporated Populated Place
- 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.
- 60.100000060° 06' 00.0"N-162.2166667162° 13' 00.0"W
- (none listed within 15 mi.)
- 1 m
- 746018449
- Updated Apr 19, 2020