Editing Point Barrow (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 200
|1890= 152
|1910= 127
|1920= 91
|1930= 82
|1940= 28
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 6, 2013}}</ref>
}}
Point Barrow first appeared in the 1880 U.S. census as the unincorporated Inuit village of "Kokmullit" (AKA Nuwuk).<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr9RAQAAMAAJ&q=kokmullit&pg=PA49 | title=Geological Survey Professional Paper| year=1949}}</ref> All 200 residents were Inuit.<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistics of the Population of Alaska |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1880a_v1-17.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |date=1880}}</ref> In 1890, it returned as Point Barrow, which also included the Refuge & Whaling Station and native settlements of Nuwuk, Ongovehenok and winter village on "Kugaru" (Inaru) River. It reported 152 residents, of which 143 were Native American, eight were "other race" and one was white.<ref>{{cite web |title=Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890 |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v8-01.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |publisher=Government Printing Office}}</ref> It did not report in 1900, but appeared again from 1910-1940. It has not reported separately since.

Barrow, a city of 5,000, changed its name to [[Utqiagvik]], its Inupiaq name, on December 1, 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Alex |last=DeMarba |date=November 8, 2016 |title=Tributes pour into Alaska for North Slope leader Edward Itta |language=en |url=https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2016/11/07/tributes-pour-into-alaska-for-north-slope-leader-edward-itta/ |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref>