population 169, on W coast of Kenai Peninsula, 38 mi. SW of Kenai, Cook Inlet Low.
This is an agricultural settlement, formerly a fur-farming and fishing village. Ivan Petroff (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1884, p. 27,) wrote "A number of 'colonial citizens,' or superannuated employe's (sic) of the old Russian Company, were ordered to settle some fifty or sixty (1820 or 1830) years ago at Ninilchik, and their descendants live there still." Its population in 1880 was 53; in 1890, 81; in 1920, 87; in 1930, 124. A post office was obtained in the early 1940's.
Cape Ninilchik, Cape Starichkof,
Cities:Rivers:Streams:Clam Creek, Corea Creek, Deep Creek, Happy Creek, South Fork Deep Creek, Stariski Creek,
Cities:Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings
Greater Yellowlegs, Bald Eagle, Black-billed Magpie, Orange-crowned Warbler, Rufous Hummingbird, Harlequin Duck, Black Turnstone, Common Gull, Common Loon, Black-capped Chickadee, Least Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Alder Flycatcher, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, White-crowned Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Common Raven, Violet-green Swallow, Wilson's Warbler, Cackling Goose, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Bonaparte's Gull, Arctic Tern, Northern Shoveler, American Wigeon, Common Goldeneye, Common Merganser, Hudsonian Godwit, Sanderling, Western Sandpiper, Lapland Longspur, Green-winged Teal, Mallard, Lesser Yellowlegs, Buff-bellied Pipit, Red Crossbill, Surf Scoter, Semipalmated Plover, Surfbird, Red-necked Phalarope, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Savannah Sparrow, Varied Thrush, Common Redpoll, Pine Siskin, Lincoln's Sparrow, Black Scoter, Song Sparrow, Northern Waterthrush, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Belted Kingfisher, Dunlin, Short-billed Dowitcher, Snow Bunting, American Dipper, Northern Shrike, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Gray Jay, Boreal Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-winged Crossbill, Hairy Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, Snow Goose, Greater Scaup, White-winged Scoter, Red-necked Grebe, Wandering Tattler, Black-legged Kittiwake, Downy Woodpecker, Greater White-fronted Goose, Black-bellied Plover, Bufflehead, Sandhill Crane, Barrow's Goldeneye, Glaucous Gull, Spruce Grouse, Red-throated Loon, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Wilson's Snipe, Whimbrel, Northern Pintail, Red-breasted Merganser, Pacific Golden-Plover, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Trumpeter Swan, Great Horned Owl, Parasitic Jaeger, Golden Eagle, Barn Swallow, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Long-tailed Duck, Solitary Sandpiper, Pine Grosbeak, Gadwall, Common Murre, Peregrine Falcon, Steller's Eider, Pacific Loon, Ancient Murrelet, Horned Puffin, Long-tailed Jaeger, Cliff Swallow, Common Eider, Pigeon Guillemot, Tufted Puffin, Aleutian Tern, Sooty Shearwater, Blackpoll Warbler, Red-tailed Hawk