Nuiqsut’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Nuiqsut. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusNuiqsut (Inupiaq: Nuiqsat, IPA: [nuiχsɐt]) is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 512 at the 2020 Census and 92.5% Alaska Native. It is located in the midst of a vast quantity of oil reserves and the closest community to ConocoPhillips oil drilling project named Willow Project in the Alpine, Alaska oil field of the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska. It owns the surface rights, but not the subsurface rights of the Alpine field, which are with the regional Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 402 to 512 (+27%). Half of its homes were built before 1982.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Nuiqsut yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Nuiqsut’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Nuiqsut’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewVillage of Nuiksut, 1972: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Nuiqsut, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Village of Nuiksut (1972) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.