Bluff, Alaska

{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Alaska, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Bluff

|native_name = Iġukuchiq, Iġukusiq, Iruk'uciq

|settlement_type = Ghost Town

|nickname =

|motto =

|image_skyline = File:Men gathered for a drink in the Road House Saloon, Bluff City, Alaska (4476959116).jpg

|image_caption = Road House Saloon, Bluff City, Alaska, photograph by Beverly Bennett Dobbs

|imagesize = 250px

|pushpin_map = Alaska

|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Alaska

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = United States

|subdivision_type1 = State

|subdivision_name1 = Alaska

|subdivision_type2 = Borough

|subdivision_name2 = Nome

|timezone = Alaska (AKST)

|utc_offset = -9

|timezone_DST = AKDT

|utc_offset_DST = -8

|elevation_footnotes =

|elevation_m = 18

|elevation_ft = 59

|coordinates = {{coord|64|34|22|N|163|45|15|W|region:US-AK|display=inline}}

|postal_code_type = ZIP code

|postal_code = 99762

|area_code_type = Area code

|area_code = 907

|blank_name = FIPS code

|blank_info = 02-08445

|blank1_name = GNIS feature ID

|blank1_info = {{GNIS4|1399220}}

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Bluff, also known as Agookauchuk (Inupiaq: Iġukuchiq or Iġukusiq; Yup'ik: Iruk'uciq), was a 20th-century mining town in Nome Census Area, Alaska.

It was built at the mouth of Daniels Creek on the north shore of Norton Sound on the Seward Peninsula in the summer of 1900, as a result of the Nome Gold Rush.{{Cite web|url=https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/domestic-names?p=138%3A3%3A0%3A%3ANO%3A3%3AP3_FID%2CP3_TITLE%3A1399220%2CBluff|title=Domestic Names | U.S. Geological Survey|website=Usgs.gov|access-date=January 31, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr9RAQAAMAAJ&dq=bluff%3A+locality&pg=PA49|title=Geological Survey Professional Paper|page=49|date=January 31, 1949|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|access-date=January 31, 2022|via=Google Books}} The town was located {{convert|55|mi|km}} southeast of Nome.{{cite web|title=Bluff, Alaska|url=http://alaskagoldrush.info/Towns/Bluff.htm|website=Alaskagoldrush.info|access-date=January 17, 2015}} The settlement was served by a post office for eighteen years, from 1901 to 1919.{{cite gnis | id = 1399220| name = Bluff| access-date = January 17, 2015 }}

{{Coord|64|34|22|N|163|45|15|W|display=title}}