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History · Kasigluk

Kasigluk’s post office opened in 1962

Most of Kasigluk was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1996 on.

1962first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Kasigluk began

When was Kasigluk founded?

1962

The Kasigluk post office opened in 1962, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 62364 years
Founding year: the first Kasigluk post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Kasigluk’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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Start Kasigluk’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kasigluk’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story so far

Kasigluk, in brief

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

Kasigluk (Central Yupik: Kassigluq) is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Bethel Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, Kasigluk had a population of 623. Kasigluk consists of two smaller villages, called Akiuk and Akula.

Its first post office opened in 1962. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 569 to 623 (+9%).

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

By decade

Kasigluk, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1990s1 item
Untitled photo1996Untitled photo
Today2 recent
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta2014Yukon-Kuskokwim DeltaYukon-Kuskokwim Delta2014Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Famous people

Famous people close to Kasigluk

Nobody well known was born in Kasigluk itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Don PageCanadian physicist · b. 1948
Lyman HoffmanAmerican politician · b. 1950
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Victor Oluwatosin AjayiEducationalist and Scientist · b. 1934
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Sonya Kelliher-CombsIñupiaq and Athabascan artist · b. 1969
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Conrad McCormickAmerican politician · b. 1997
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

NunapitchukIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Kasigluk’s history

What year was Kasigluk founded?

The Kasigluk post office opened in 1962, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 (3), 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.