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Chignik Bay reported a population of 193 in 1890 [8] (which was majority Asian (121), with 66 White residents, 5 Native Alaskans & 1 Other). It did not report again until 1910 when it had a total of 566 residents, which made it the 13th largest community in the territory of Alaska. This was the last time it appeared on the census until Chignik ...
Chignik Lake (Alutiiq: Igyaraq) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. It is 475 miles (764 km) southwest of Anchorage . At the 2020 census , the population was 61.
Benny Benson Memorial at mile 1.4 (km 2.3) of the Seward Highway in Seward, Alaska. John Ben Benson Jr. (September 12, 1912 – July 2, 1972) was an Alaska Native best known for designing the flag of Alaska. Benson was 14 years old when he won a contest in 1927 to design the flag for the Territory of Alaska, which became a U.S. state on January ...
Chignik Lagoon is at (56.307535, -158.535023), [5] on the southeast shore of the tidal inlet of the same It is bordered to the east by the city of Chignik.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 13.8 square miles (35.7 km 2), all of it land.
The development of the salmon fishing industry in Alaska brought a cannery to Chignik Lagoon in 1882, about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of the future monument. The industry expanded, building fish traps in Aniakchak Bay by 1917. Other traps followed through 1937, some operating until 1949.
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Off the coast of Alaska lies the Aleutian subduction zone–a 2,500 mile long convergent plate boundary where the Pacific plate subducts under the North American plate at a rate of 6–7 cm/yr. This megathrust fault has been the source of many large earthquakes including the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that registered a magnitude 9.2 and remains ...
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