Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alaska/Communities

Bush Alaska

I could use some help cleaning up the Bush Alaska page. Most of the info there now is based on my own personal experience living in Tuntutuliak and teaching there for two years. I just don't have the time now to find appropriate citations. Thanks! Knowmoore 17:08, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Current vs. historical Alaska communities

Here's an issue I think worth considering: although the Alaska Community Database from DCCED (why can't they give state departments names we can remember nowadays?) provides a pretty complete listing of communities, census-designated places, & boroughs or census areas that are recognized today, if we go only from that list we miss a lot of historical communities that are no longer lived in. Ghost towns, historic Alaska Native villages, etc.

My case in point: Kalifornsky village, which is quite a different animal... er... place than the CDP that's been given the name Kalifornsky by whoever in government is in the business of establishing such names.

I created a stub for Kalifornsky village the other day, & will be expanding it quite a bit in the course of my work on Peter Kalifornsky, whose great-great-grandfather gave Kalifornsky village its name. I also added Kalifornsky village to the List of places in Alaska. Is it appropriate, then, to add it to this list? Or should there, rather, be started a list of historical communities that no longer exist, except perhaps as archaelogical sites? -- Yksin 01:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Old Believer Russian Communities

I am currently working on the Russian Old Believer communities near Homer and Delta Junction and their histories. Anyone have information on that? Voznesenka, Nikolaevsk, Kachemak Selo, and Razdolna are all Old Believer communities near Homer, AK. I have found quite a few citations, but a Homer native could probably dig up more. I only spent a few months there and I know how integrated these communities are with Homer at times. Wrad 07:34, 7 March 2007 (UTC)