Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska
Kusilvak Census Area, formerly known as Wade Hampton Census Area, is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,368, up from 7,459 in 2010. It is part of the Unorganized Borough and therefore ...
, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 474, up from 465 in 2000.
Etymology
It is named after
Charles Melville Scammon
Charles Melville Scammon (1825–1911) was a 19th-century whaleman, naturalist, and author. He was the first to hunt the gray whales of both Laguna Ojo de Liebre and San Ignacio Lagoon, the former also known as "Scammon's Lagoon" after him. In ...
William Healey Dall
William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America, and ...
in 1870. A local dish was also named after Scammon, which is a mixture of
scrambled eggs
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Preparation
Only eggs are necessary to make scramble ...
and
salmon
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, taking advantage of the abundance of the fish in the local waters. Popular folk etymology says that scammon is a
portmanteau
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Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Demographics
Scammon Bay first appeared on the 1940 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village. It formally incorporated in 1967.
As of the census of 2000, there were 465 people, 96 households, and 84 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 114 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 1.94%
White
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, 0.22%
Black
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or
African American
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Pacific Islander
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, 0.22% from
other races
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* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
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, and 1.29% from two or more races. 0.22% of the population were
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...
or
Latino
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* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race.
There were 96 households, out of which 66.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were married couples living together, 19.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 12.5% were non-families. 12.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.84 and the average family size was 5.25.
In the city, the age distribution of the population shows 49.5% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 13.3% from 45 to 64, and 3.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 18 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $25,625, and the median income for a family was $25,938. Males had a median income of $36,875 versus $13,750 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $7,719. About 30.2% of families and 37.4% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 49.0% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
Education
K-12 students attend Scammon Bay School, operated by the
Lower Yukon School District Lower Yukon School District is a school district headquartered in Mountain Village, Alaska, serving the Kusilvak Census Area. As of the 2017-18 school year, it has 1,998 students across 10 schools. 91% are American Indian or Alaska Native and 5% a ...