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History · Egegik

Egegik was first counted by the census in 1880

Most of Egegik was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: 9 old photos and papers, maps from 1951 on, and the census since 1880.

1880first census
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
9old photos & papers
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From Egegik’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Egegik began

When was Egegik founded?

1880

Egegik first appears in the census in 1880.

First census: 120 in 18802020 census: 39146 years
Founding year: the first census.

What stands out about Egegik’s past

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

Boom and bustPeaked at 203 in 1900; 39 people lived here in 2020.
★ What stands out · People over time

Egegik, census by census

010020018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 203

Peaked at 203 in 1900; 39 people lived here in 2020.

14 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

The story so far

Egegik, in brief

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

Egegik (Central Yupik: Igyagiiq; Sugpiaq: Igya'iq, Igyagiq) is a city in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city is 39, down from 109 in 2010. It has been home to cannery operations.

Its first post office opened in 1880. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 109 to 39 (-64%).

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

Timeline

Egegik, 1900 to 1951

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900CensusPopulation peaks at 203
  3. 1917In the archiveAlaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 1917
  4. 1930Post officeThe Egegik post office opens
  5. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Egegik, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s7 items
Alaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Alaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska,…Eskimo barabara, or sod hut, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917c. 1917Eskimo barabara, or sod hut, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917Eskimo bidarkas (skin covered boats)on the beach at Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917c. 1917Eskimo bidarkas (skin covered boats)on the beach at E…Eskimo children, Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Eskimo children, Egegik, Alaska, 1917Eskimo dwellings, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 19171917Eskimo dwellings, Egegik, Alaska, ca. 1917Eskimo fish traps, Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Eskimo fish traps, Egegik, Alaska, 1917Hauling in salmon from Eskimo fish trap, Egegik, Alaska, 19171917Hauling in salmon from Eskimo fish trap, Egegik, Alas…
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Date unknown2 to date
Egegik Village on the Alaska PeninsulaDate?Egegik Village on the Alaska PeninsulaTransfiguration of Our Lord Russian Orthodox ChurchDate?Transfiguration of Our Lord Russian Orthodox Church
On the map

Egegik on the map in 1951

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Egegik.

Egegik on the 1951 USGS map1951Naknek A-5 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 Egegik.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Alaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 1917
Retake this viewAlaska Packers Association cannery at Egegik, Alaska, 1917, 1917

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Egegik’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Egegik’s post office has been open since 1930.

Gone or out of use
Bartletts Airportairport

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Help out

Finish Egegik’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewAlaska Packers Association cannery at E…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Egegik’s history

What year was Egegik founded?

The Egegik post office opened in 1880, 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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Sources

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 (8), the Library of Congress (1), 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.