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Per Secretary's Order 3423 and 3424, the change to use the names Gulf of America and Mount McKinley have been made. (Regarding the display base maps, the USGS is aware of issues occurring outside of CONUS and Alaska impacting country boundaries and ocean labels).

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38.8108209°, -95.5494690°, 5

Summary Report

Killisnoo (historical)

Feature Details

Feature ID

1423064

Name

Killisnoo (historical)

Class

Populated Place

Feature Code

Unincorporated Place

Location

Hoonah-Angoon Census Area - Alaska

Citation

Source Type	Map
Reference	US
Originator	U.S. Geological Survey
Notes	Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files. In some instances, from 1:62,500 scale or 1:250,000 scale maps.
Distribution Date	December 31, 1981
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Original Citation	Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files.

Entry Date

March 31, 1981

*Elevation

5 meters / 16 feet

Designations

Historical

History

former village established about 1881 when members of the Hutsnuwu tribe of Tlingit Indians were brought from the villages of Angoon and Nahltushkan to work in a fish rendering plant. The village was named for the island. 1890; 351 in 1910; 256 in 1920; and 3 in 1930. post office was established in 1882; discontinued in 1930 (Ricks, 1965, p. 33).

Description

on E coast of Killisnoo I., 2 mi. S of Angoon; Alex. Arch.

Census Code	Class Code	GSA Code	OPM Code
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Variant Names

Name	In Part	Originator	Reference	Series Name	Publication Date	Source URL	Title	Edition	Notes	Additional Information
Kanas-nu	No	-	AK	-	-	-	-	-	-	Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.
Kanasnu	No	Krause, Aurel and Arthur Krause	AK	-	December 31, 1993	-	To the Chukchi Peninsula and to the Tlingit Indians, 1881/1882.	-	Translated by Margot Krause McCaffrey. English translation published by University of Alaska Press.	-
Kenasnow	No	-	AK	-	-	-	-	-	-	Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.
Killishoo	No	-	AK	-	-	-	-	-	-	Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.

Decisions

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Coordinates

Sequence	Coordinates	Map	State
1	57.4694444, -134.5697222 / 57° 28' 10.00" N, 134° 34' 11.00" W	Sitka B-2 NW	AK

Government Units

Sequence	State or Equivalent	County or Equivalent
1	Alaska	Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

Map

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38.8108209°, -95.5494690°, 19z