Bristol Bay · AK
Dillingham
Hub of the world's biggest wild sockeye runs.
- Population
- 2,249 (2020 census)
- First cannery
- 1883
- Incorporated
- 1963
Then
- 1818
The Russian-American Company builds Alexandrovski at Nushagak Point. The Yup'ik call the area Curyung.
- 1883
The first Bristol Bay cannery opens. Ten line the Nushagak by 1903.
- 1918–1919
The flu leaves no more than 500 survivors around Dillingham.
- 1963
The city incorporates.
Now
Dillingham is the hub of the Bristol Bay salmon fishery and headquarters of Togiak refuge. This place covers Nushagak Bay out to Cape Constantine, Kulukak Bay and the Walrus Islands.
6 tide stations around Dillingham
- Snag Pointin town
- Nushagak Bay (Clarks Point)13.6 mi
- Protection Point38.4 mi
- Cape Constantine, Nushagak Penninsula43.6 mi
- Kulukak Point, Kulukak Bay44.6 mi
- Black Rock, Walrus Islands65.9 mi