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Kiwalik, Alaska

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690: 575: 49: 286:, 7 miles (11 km) away on the Kiwalik River, by Candle Creek. It is now used only by subsistence hunters and travelers who stop to use the public shelter cabin on the public road (Kiwalik-Candle route) to access the graveyard, which is surrounded by private property. The community is now abandoned and dilapidated, filled with rusty hulks, trash and broken down buildings. 56: 289:
The Kiwalik river area is often featured on the National Geographic Channel series Life Below Zero as one of the places the Hailstone family visits for hunting and gathering, thus demonstrating the subsistence skills necessary for life in this landscape and climate.
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Kiwalik first reported on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated Inuit village of "Kugalukmute." It did not appear on the census again until 1930, when it reported as "Keewalik." It reported again as Keewalik in 1940. It has not reported separately since.
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were the people on the Kuguruk river, (kugurukmuit) the river just to Kiwalik rivers west.
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kiwalik, Alaska
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Kiwalik was once a small community that supported mining operations at
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Unincorporated communities in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
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Unincorporated community in the state of Alaska, United States
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unincorporated community
Kiwalik is located in Alaska
66°01′22″N 161°50′31″W / 66.02278°N 161.84194°W / 66.02278; -161.84194
Country
State
Alaska
Borough
Northwest Arctic
mayor
State senator
Donny Olson
D
State rep.
Dean Westlake
Time zone
UTC-9
Alaska (AKST)
DST
UTC-8
GNIS
unincorporated community
Northwest Arctic Borough
U.S. state
Alaska
Kiwalik River
Kotzebue Sound
Seward Peninsula
Kotzebue
Candle
1880

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