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The Kuskokwim River is the longest river system contained entirely within a single U.S. state. The river provides the principal drainage for an area of the remote Alaska Interior on the north and west side of the Alaska Range, flowing southwest into Kuskokwim Bay on the Bering Sea. The highest point in its watershed is Mount Russell.
The Kolmakov Redoubt Site is a historic archaeological site on the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska. The site is located downriver from the hamlet of Sleetmute, about 21 miles east of Aniak. The site was the location of a major trading post, which was one of the only ones established deep in the Alaskan interior by the Russian-American Company.
McGrath (Tochak’ [4] in Upper Kuskokwim, Digenegh [5] in Deg Xinag) is a city [6] [7] and village on the Kuskokwim River in Alaska, United States. The population was 301 at the 2020 census. [8] Despite its small population, the village is an important transportation and economic hub for the area.
Bethel (Central Yupik: Mamterilleq) is a city in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the Kuskokwim River approximately 50 miles (80 km) from where the river flows into Kuskokwim Bay. It is the largest community in western Alaska and in the Unorganized Borough and the eighth-largest in the state .
Kuskokwim Bay is a bay in southwestern Alaska, at about It is about 160 km (99 mi) long, and 160 km (99 mi) wide. The Kuskokwim River empties into Kuskokwim Bay.
Georgetown is located at on the north bank of the upper Kuskokwim River in the Kilbuck-Kuskokwim mountains. It is 16 miles (26 km) downstream of Red Devil just upstream of the mouth of the George River. Georgetown is accessible by boat, snowmobile (winter), or small plane.
Aniak is a Yup'ik word meaning "the place where it comes out," which refers to the mouth of the Aniak River where it flows into the Kuskokwim River. [10] This river played a role in the Placer Gold Rush of 1900–01, [11] when prospectors from Nome rushed to the Kuskokwim River Delta after hearing of discoveries [12] along the "Yellow River", later believed to be the Aniak River [13] because ...
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