Information About

Weare Dike

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Weare Dike on The Map

Location

61 ° 37' 14.002" N,
161 ° 46' 18.998" W

Region

Wade Hampton (CA)

Nearest City

Marshall

Elevation

16 ft (4.88 m)

Weare Dike in Detail.

About

on a slough N of Yukon River, 6 mi. E of Blade I. and 19 mi. SW of Russian Mission, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

History

Site of a dike shown on a 1916 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) map; name derived from "the Portus B. Weare (that) was the first steamboat of the N.A.T. and T. Company, built in 1892 at Fort Get There, Alaska. She was named for Portus B. Weare, of Chicago, one of the organizers of the Company." (Curtin, 1938, p. 280). "During the winter of 1898-99 the Weare *** wintered about fifteen miles below Russian Mission, where she was stuck in the open river, near the bank. A breakwater was built in front of her at a cost of five thousand dollars, and she was saved from the ice jam in the spring. The nreakwater must have stood, for on U.S. (Geological) Survey Mpas made *** in 1916 the place is marked, and named 'Weare Dyke'" (p. 283).