Anvik, Alaska

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City Description

Anvik is a city, home to the Deg Hit'an people, in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The name Anvik, which became the common usage despite multiple names at the time, may have come from early Russian explorers. The native name in the Deg Xinag language is Deloy Ges. The population was 104 at the 2000 census. The original site was on the other side of the Yukon River, but residents gradually moved to where the Anvik Episcopal mission/school and church were constructed in 1887. A post office was also erected ten years later. There were two influenza epidemics, first in 1918, and again in 1927, which created many orphans. Children came from as far away as Fort Yukon to the mission. Anvik has been known by many names throughout the years, including: American Station, Anvic, Anvick, Anvig, Anvig Station, and Anwig. Anvik was an Ingalik Indian village which the Russian Andrei Glazanov reported as having several hundred people in 1834 (the population has since been estimated to be over 700). The Native village was originally sited across the Yukon River Northeast of its present location at a place called the point. Every year at breakup, families moved up into the

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Alaska
• Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 30.820858513 km squared

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