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==Old Chevak (1940)== {{US Census population |align=left |1940= 43 |align-fn=center |footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 6, 2013}}</ref> }} Chevak first appeared on the 1940 U.S. Census as an unincorporated native village.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alaska - Number of Inhabitants |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/33973538v1ch11.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |date=1940}}</ref> At the time it was located above the junction of the Keoklevik & Kashunuk Rivers at an altitude of 7 feet. {{Coord|61|25|56|N|165|27|03|W|region:US-AK_type:landmark_source:GNIS|name=Old Chevak}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1407477,Old%20Chevak|title=Domestic Names | U.S. Geological Survey}}</ref> In the 1940s, residents relocated 9 miles northwest to a new village due to flooding from high storm tides.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr9RAQAAMAAJ&q=chevak&pg=PA49 | title=Geological Survey Professional Paper| year=1949}}</ref> The old site became Old Chevak and was abandoned and did not report again on the census. <gallery> File:Old Chevak trading post building.jpg|Original trading post on the Keoklevik River at the old town of Chevak, 2006 File:Old town of Chevak on the Kashunuk river.jpg|Old town of Chevak on the Kashunuk river </gallery>
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