Pekwan, California

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{{Infobox settlement

|name = Pekwan

|other_name = Pecwan

|native_name = Pekwan

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|settlement_type =Former settlement

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|subdivision_name1 = California

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|subdivision_name2 = Humboldt County

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|elevation_footnotes = {{gnis|1682150}}

|elevation_m =26

|elevation_ft =85

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Pekwan (also Pecwan, Pack-wans, Pak-wan, Pank-wans, Pec-quan, Pek-wan, and Tirip'ama) (Yurok: PekwanCalifornia Place Names of Indian Origin (A. L. Kroeber, 1916) or Pekwon {{Cite web

| title = Yurok Dictionary: Pekwon

| access-date = 2012-07-07

| url = http://corpus.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~yurok/lexicon.php?style=query&writing=&lx-id=2510&index=&yu=&ge=&sd=36&rf=&pd=&ps=&mr=&quick-search=

}}) is a locality{{cite book |last= Durham |first= David L. |title= California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State |year= 1998 |publisher= Quill Driver Books |isbn= 978-1-884995-14-9 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Yfa0hmE7yocC |page= 120}} and former Yurok settlement in Humboldt County, California. It is located at an elevation of 85 feet (26 m). on the Lower Klamath River at the mouth of Pecwan Creek, {{convert|1|mi|km}} east-southeast of Johnsons.{{GNIS|1665262|Pecwan}}

File:Yurok Geography (Waterman) map 8.png|Remains of Pekwan in 1920