Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Census area
- Nome
- Incorporated
- December 12, 1963
- Mayor
- Howard Tungiyan
- State senator
- Donny Olson ( D )
- State rep
- Neal Foster (D)
- Total
- 28.42 sq mi (73.61 km )
- Land
- 10.51 sq mi (27.21 km )
- Water
- 17.92 sq mi (46.40 km )
- Elevation
- 0 ft (0 m)
- Density
- 60.9/sq mi (23.52/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
- Fips code
- 02-27640
- Gnis feature id
- 1402463 , 2419389
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Gambell
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nome Census Area
- Population
- 640
- Area
- 78.615992
- Elevation
- 0
- Image
- Gambell Alaska June 16 '06.jpg
- Households
- 302
- Dialing code
- 99742
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- Commons category
- Gambell, Alaska
- native label
- Sivuqaq
- postal code
- 99742
- inception
- 1963-12-12
- water as percent of area
- 64.0912
- P8168
- Thomas Hardy
- water area
- 50.385909
- per capita income
- 25455
- mean age
- 19.8
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Encyclopedic overview
Gambell (/ˈɡæm.bəl/ GAM-bəl) (Central Siberian Yupik: Sivuqaq) is a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Located on St. Lawrence Island, it had a population of 640 at the 2020 census, down from 681 in 2010.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gambell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.