{"id":22,"slug":"chisana-chisana-alaska","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Chisana is the last stampede — Alaska's final great gold rush, the 1913 strike on Bonanza Creek that Nels Nelson spotted and Shushanna Joe guided them to, that sent thousands over the glaciers to build 'the largest log cabin town in the world' between the Nutzotin and Wrangell Mountains. The boom was three years; the district ran to 1942; the ruins are the most intact gold-rush landscape left in Alaska.","The Park Service keeps it now — the two towns, the tent camps, the hydraulic works, the women's jail, the log buildings restored on the townsite where the cheechakos came in over the ice. The rush that was called America's last made few rich and left the whole apparatus of a mining district standing in the valley where it happened.","The file keeps Chisana: the 1913 strike, the log-cabin city, the two towns in ruins, and the last rush that built a landscape and left it.","Chisana is the archive's last-rush file — the 1913 stampede and the district the wilderness kept."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Chisana is the archive's last-rush file — the 1913 Bonanza strike, the log-cabin town, and the intact mining landscape.","A gold rush that ended keeps its buildings — the file's suggestion being that Chisana's hold is the completeness: the camps and the ditches and the jail still standing, in the valley that the last stampeders left behind."]}],"name":"Chisana","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Historic mining community in Wrangell–St. Elias.","full_desc":"Chisana is a ghost town in Chisana, Alaska. Historic mining community in Wrangell–St. Elias. It sits in the archive under ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Chisana","county":null,"state":"Alaska","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":62.110039,"lon":-142.050549,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":"NPS describes air-taxi access; inhabited properties are not implied public.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass; historical, geographic, and access enrichment remain queued. Confidence describes source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":55,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS describes Chisana as a ghost-town-like community while noting that some such sites retain residents. The town's documented rise and abandonment is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Ghost Towns' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ghost Towns","url":"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/ghost-towns.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Ghost Towns","url":"https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/ghost-towns.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Chisana, Alaska","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisana%2C_Alaska","desc":"CDP in Alaska, United States","extract":"Chisana (also Shushanna) (Tsetsaan' Na in Ahtna) is a  census-designated place (CDP) in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, Chisana had a population of 0. The English name Chisana derives from the Ahtna Athabascan name Tsetsaan' Na, meaning literally 'copper river' (not to be confused with the river known in English as the Copper River). The Chisana River joins the Nabesna River just north of Northway Junction, Alaska, to form the Tanana River, a major tributary of the Yukon River. The Chisana Airport consists of a turf and gravel runway which is largely serviced by flights from Tok, Alaska.\nIn 1985, the community was listed as Chisana Historic Di","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Chisana_Post_Office.jpg/960px-Chisana_Post_Office.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":88,"lat":62.06611,"lon":-142.04083},"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}