Chisana

Chisana is a ghost town in Copper River County, Alaska, recorded as human settlement in Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States of America. It is one of 11 former communities in Copper River County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 12th among the 34 Alaska counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Chisana as a historical populated place on the Nabesna A-3 NE topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 62.1531° N, 142.1569° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Alaska before 1931 that mention “Chisana”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 2,709 pages in all.

• 1904-07-27Douglas Island News (Douglas City, Alaska)
• 1907-07-25The Alaska Prospector (Valdez, Alaska)
• 1907-07-25The Alaska Prospector (Valdez, Alaska)
• 1910-04-09The Alaska Citizen (Fairbanks, Alaska)
• 1910-09-24The Chitina Leader (Chitina, Alaska)
• 1910-09-26The Alaska Citizen (Fairbanks, Alaska)

Key facts

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