Kiwalik, Alaska

Kiwalik (sometimes written Keewalik) is an unincorporated village in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located where the Kiwalik River flows into Kotzebue Sound on the Seward Peninsula, 97 km (60 mi) south of Kotzebue.

Once a small community that supported mining operations at Candle, 7 miles away on the Kiwalik River, by Candle creek. Now used only by Subsistence hunters and travelers who stop to use the Public shelter Cabin on the public road (Kiwalik-Candle route) to access the graveyard, surrounded by private property. It is presently abandoned and dilapidated, filled with rusty hulks, trash and broken down buildings of no use or value. It is dangerous and unknown refuse is left there by the current land owner, who keeps it in this state.