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History · Huslia

Huslia was first counted by the census in 1950

Most of Huslia was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1954 on, and the census since 1950.

1950first census
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Huslia began

When was Huslia founded?

1950

Huslia first appears in the census in 1950.

First census: 65 in 19502020 census: 30476 years
Founding year: the first census.

What stands out about Huslia’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Huslia’s history is told.

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The story so far

Huslia, in brief

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

Huslia (; Koyukon: Ts’aateyhdenaadekk’onh Denh [t͡sʼæːtʰəj̊tənætəqʼon̥ tən̥]) is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. Rarely known as Hussliakatna, it is inhabited by Koyukuk-hotana Athabascans. As of the 2020 census, Huslia had a population of 304. In January 2025, Huslia became notable for being unusually warm at a time when much of the US was experiencing atypically cold weather due to a polar vortex. Huslia was 20 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in January 2025 than it typically is that month, which was the largest heat increase in the country.

Its first post office opened in 1950. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 275 to 304 (+11%).

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

Timeline

Huslia, 1944 to 1954

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1944Born hereJohn Sackett is born here
  3. 1952Post officeThe Huslia post office opens
  4. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Huslia, decade by decade

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Huslia villageDate?Huslia village
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On the map

Huslia on the map in 1954

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

Huslia on the 1954 USGS map1954Kateel River C-1 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 Huslia.

Then & now

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People over time

Huslia, census by census

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Grew from 65 people in 1950 to 304 in 2020, 4 times over.

8 censuses, 1950–2020.

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

Questions about Huslia’s history

What year was Huslia founded?

The Huslia post office opened in 1950, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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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 (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.