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Current vs. historical Alaska communities

Here's an issue I think worth considering: although the Alaska Community Database from DCCED (why can't they give state departments names we can remember nowadays?) provides a pretty complete listing of communities, census-designated places, & boroughs or census areas that are recognized today, if we go only from that list we miss a lot of historical communities that are no longer lived in. Ghost towns, historic Alaska Native villages, etc.

My case in point: Kalifornsky village, which is quite a different animal... er... place than the CDP that's been given the name Kalifornsky by whoever in government is in the business of establishing such names.

I created a stub for Kalifornsky village the other day, & will be expanding it quite a bit in the course of my work on Peter Kalifornsky, whose great-great-grandfather gave Kalifornsky village its name. I also added Kalifornsky village to the List of places in Alaska. Is it appropriate, then, to add it to this list? Or should there, rather, be started a list of historical communities that no longer exist, except perhaps as archaelogical sites? -- Yksin 01:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)