Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Clark's Point was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1952 on and the census since 1890.
Clark's Point first appears in the census in 1890.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clark's Point’s history is told.
Peaked at 138 in 1960; 67 people lived here in 2020.
11 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Clark's Point’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Clark's Point yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Clark's Point (Central Yupik: Saguyaq) is a city in Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Clark's Point had a population of 67.
Its first post office opened in 1890. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 62 to 67 (+8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clark's Point.
1952Nushagak Bay D-2 sheet · 1:63,360U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Clark's Point.
Nobody well known was born in Clark's Point itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Clark's Point post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
