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Bluff

Bluff

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Nome (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 52 ft (15.85 m)
About

At the mouth of Daniels Creek, on north shore of Norton Sound, 21 miles east of Solomon, Seward Peninsula High.

History of Bluff

Site of a mining camp established in the summer of 1900 at the height of the Nome gold rush-"Bluff owes its existence to the rich beach placers which have been developed at the mouth of Daniels Creek" (Brooks, 1901, p. 67). Bluff Post Office was established in 1901 and was discontinued in 1919 (Ricks, 1965, p. 8). Balcom (1965, p. 7) noted "The Eskimos called the place by the native name for bluff, 'Agookauchuk'."