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Council is an abandoned townsite in the Nome Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska.

Geography

Council is located at about , about 57 miles east by northeast of Nome. It is located on the banks of the Niukluk River on the central Seward Peninsula.

History

Council was built in 1897 and 1898 when gold was discovered near the Ophir Creek. Council may have had had as many as 15,000 inhabitants during those years. The residents left after larger discoveries of gold near Nome around 1900. Council has about 25 old buildings and much old mining equipment, including a dredge, laying about. During the summer, Council is used as a fish camp and a recreational location for residents of Nome and White Mountain.
   Council is connected to Nome by a gravel road, the Nome-Council Road. Council is the nearest site to Nome that has trees, and some Nome residents cut spruce trees at Council for use as Christmas trees.
   A second, larger, dredge is located at 15 Mile Camp on Ophir Creek. There are several mine buildings on the site, including a powerhouse with a moderate diameter Pelton (undershot) waterwheel. A number of new building have been added in recent years, mostly for summer second-home usage. Occasionally one or two people winter at Council. In the Fall of 2004 the telephone lines which hadn't been used since a brief period of re-habitation in the 1970's were removed by the utility. Utility poles remain in place with wires connecting to a defunct power plant from the same period.
   There is one bed and breakfast operating in summer at Council, used heavily by government survey crews.

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