Bluff, also known as Agookauchuk ( Inupiaq: ''Iġukuchiq'' or ''Iġukusiq'';

Yup'ik The Yupʼik or Yupiaq (sg & pl) and Yupiit or Yupiat (pl), also Central Alaskan Yupʼik, Central Yupʼik, Alaskan Yupʼik ( own name ''Yupʼik'' sg ''Yupiik'' dual ''Yupiit'' pl; Russian: Юпики центральной Аляски), are an ...

: ''Iruk'uciq''), was a 20th-century

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Nome Census Area, Alaska Nome Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska, mostly overlapping with the Seward Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,046, up from 9,492 in 2010. It is part of the unorganized borough and therefor ...

. It was built at the mouth of Daniels Creek on the north shore of Norton Sound on the

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in the summer of 1900, as a result of the

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. The town was located southeast of

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. The settlement was served by a post office for eighteen years, from 1901 to 1919.

Demographics

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

References

Mining communities in Alaska Unincorporated communities in Nome Census Area, Alaska {{NomeAK-geo-stub