Hooper Bay Community
photos by Scott Ballard
E.W. Nelson of the U.S. Signal Service first reported the site in December 1878. The 1890 census records a
population of 138 residing in a total of 14 dwellings in a village called “Askinaghamiut”, a variation of the name
Askinuk. The name of “Hooper Bay” came into common usage after a post office with the same name
was established there in 1934. In 1951, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey reported the present-day Yup’ik
name for the village “Naparagamiut” meaning “stake village people”.
Approximate population 1,400.
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