Editing Nunam Iqua, Alaska

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| official_name = Nunam Iqua
   
| other_name = Sheldon Point
| settlement_type = [[City (Alaska)|City]]
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Alaska]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska|Kusilvak]]
| established_title = [[Municipal corporation|Incorporated]]
| established_date = 1974<ref>{{cite book|title=1996 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory|location=[[Juneau]]|publisher=Alaska Municipal League/[[Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development|Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs]]|date=January 1996|page=141}}</ref>

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| leader_name = Edward Abrahamson, Jr.<ref>{{Cite book|title=2015 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory|location=Juneau|publisher=Alaska Municipal League|year=2015|page=118}}</ref>
| leader_title1 = [[Alaska Senate|State senator]]
| leader_name1 = [[Donny Olson|Donald Olson]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])
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| postal_code = 99666
| area_code = [[Area code 907|907]]
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| leader_title2 = [[Alaska House of Representatives|State rep.]]
| leader_name2 = [[Neal Foster]] (D)
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'''Nunam Iqua''', formerly called '''Sheldon Point''', is a city in the [[Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska|Kusilvak Census Area]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Alaska]]. At the [[United States Census, 2010|2010 census]] the population was 187, up from 164 in 2000.

''Nunam Iqua'' is a [[Yupik language|Yupik]] name meaning "land's end" ({{lang|esu|nuna}} = "land"; {{lang|esu|iquk}} = "end").<ref>{{cite book|author=William Bright|title=Native American Placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA142|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=142|quote= [[Ekwok]] [is ...] based on ''iquk'' 'end' (Jacobson 1984).}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Osahito Miyaoka|title=A Grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PlyMhBW6ixgC&pg=PA804|date= 2012|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-027857-6|page=804|quote= "Nuna-m iqu-anet-uq [...] it is at the end of the land"}}</ref> A man named Sheldon opened a fish saltery there in the 1930s, and the city was incorporated under the name Sheldon Point in 1974. The name was changed to Nunam Iqua in a November 1999 [[referendum]].<ref>[http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Nunam+Iqua Alaska Community Database: Nunam Iqua] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206094913/http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Nunam+Iqua |date=February 6, 2012 }}. Retrieved August 30, 2007.</ref>

==Geography==
Nunam Iqua is located at {{coord|62|30|58|N|164|53|43|W|region:US_type:city}} (62.516094, -164.895198).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|18.5|sqmi|km2}}, of which, {{convert|13.2|sqmi|km2}} of it is land and {{convert|5.3|sqmi|km2}} of it (28.80%) is water.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1950= 43
|1960= 125
|1970= 125
|1980= 103
|1990= 109
|2000= 164
|2010= 187
|2020= 217
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
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Nunam Iqua first appeared on the 1950 U.S. Census as the unincorporated village of "Sheldon's Point." In 1960, it reported as Sheldon Point. In 1974, it formally incorporated as Sheldon Point. In 1999, the name was changed to Nunam Iqua.

As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> of 2000, there were 164 people, 35 households, and 26 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|12.4|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 45 housing units at an average density of {{convert|3.4|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 5.49% [[Race (United States Census)|White]], 0.61% [[Race (United States Census)|Black]] or [[Race (United States Census)|African American]], 90.24% [[Race (United States Census)|Native American]], and 3.66% from two or more races.

There were 35 households, out of which 57.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 31.4% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 28.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.9% were non-families. 17.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.69 and the average family size was 5.22.

In the city the population was spread out, with 51.8% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 11.6% from 45 to 64, and 4.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 17 years. For every 100 females there were 124.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.

The [[median income]] for a household in the city was $29,000, and the median income for a family was $26,250. Males had a median income of $48,750 versus $24,375 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $6,725. About 40.6% of families and 36.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 40.9% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.

==Education==
K-12 students attend Nunam Iqua School, operated by the [[Lower Yukon School District]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/dcra/DCRAExternal/community/Details=Nunam%20Iqua Alaska Division of Community Advocacy - Community Information Summary] {{dead link|date=December 2015}}
* [http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/03/opinion/sutter-alaska-rape-lawless/ The lawless 'end of the land']

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[[Category:Cities in Alaska]]
[[Category:Cities in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska]]
[[Category:Yukon River]]