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History · Crooked Creek

Crooked Creek’s post office opened in 1927

Most of Crooked Creek was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1940.

1927first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Crooked Creek began

When was Crooked Creek founded?

1927

The Crooked Creek post office opened in 1927, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 48 in 19402020 census: 9099 years
Founding year: the first Crooked Creek post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Crooked Creek’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Crooked Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 137 in 2000; 90 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Crooked Creek’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Crooked Creek, census by census

010019401960198020002020Peak: 137

Peaked at 137 in 2000; 90 people lived here in 2020.

9 censuses, 1940–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Crooked Creek’s Wikipedia page.

The story so far

Crooked Creek, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Crooked Creek yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Crooked Creek (Central Yupik: Qipcarpak) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Crooked Creek had a population of 90.

Its first post office opened in 1927. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 105 to 90 (-14%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Crooked Creek, 1927 to 2000

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1927Post officeThe Crooked Creek post office opens
  3. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 21st century
  5. 2000CensusPopulation peaks at 137
By decade

Crooked Creek, decade by decade

Today2 recent
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On the map

Crooked Creek on the map in 1954

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Crooked Creek.

Crooked Creek on the 1954 USGS map1954Sleetmute D-6 sheet · 1:63,360

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Crooked Creek.

Questions about Crooked Creek’s history

What year was Crooked Creek founded?

The Crooked Creek post office opened in 1927, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.