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Anvik
 Anvik
is located in Interior Alaska on the Anvik River, west of the Yukon
River, 34 miles north of Holy Cross. It lies at approximately 62° 39' N
Latitude, 160° 12' W Longitude (Sec. 29, T030N, R058W, Seward Meridian).
The community is located in the Kuskokwim Recording District. The area
encompasses 11 sq. miles of land and 3 sq. miles of water.
 Anvik has historically been an Ingalik
Indian village. It has been known as American Station, Anvic, Anvick,
Anvig, Anvig Station, and Anwig. The Russian Glazanov reported it having
100 people in 1834. Originally it was on other side of the river, to the
northeast, at a place called the point. Residents gradually moved across
the river with the establishment of an Episcopal mission and school in
1887. A post office opened in 1897. After the flu epidemic of 1918-19,
and another in 1927, many orphans became wards of the mission. Some
children came from as far away as Fort Yukon. Sternwheelers carried
supplies to the village in the early 1920s. Some residents had contracts
to cut wood for the sternwheeler's fuel, and fish and furs were sold to
traders. The early 1930s brought the first arrival of a plane on skis.
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