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Pilot Point
 Pilot
Point is located on the northern coast of the Alaska Peninsula, on the
east side of Ugashik Bay. The community lies 80 air miles south of King
Salmon. It lies at approximately 57° 33' N Latitude, 157° 34' W
Longitude (Sec. 29, T030S, R051W, Seward Meridian). The community is
located in the Kvichak Recording District. The area encompasses 67 sq.
miles of land and 17 sq. miles of water.
In 1889, this was a mixed Aleut and
Eskimo village with a fish salting plant called "Pilot Station." Pilots
were stationed here to take boats upriver to a large cannery at Ugashik
- this was the basis for the village name. A cannery was built by Bering
Sea Packing Co. in 1891, and three additional plants were built over the
next four years. Many nationalities came to work in the canneries -
Italians, Chinese and northern Europeans. Reindeer herding experiments
helped to repopulate the area after the devastating 1918 flu epidemic,
although the herding eventually failed. A Russian Orthodox Church and a
Seventh Day Adventist Church were built in the village. A post office
was established in 1933, and the name was changed to Pilot Point at that
time.
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