Wiseman is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 21 at the 2000 census.
Wiseman is a small mining community in the Brooks Range. It was founded by gold miners who abandoned the Slate Creek (later Coldfoot) settlement around 1919. Robert Marshall wrote the book, Arctic Village, about his stay in this town around the year 1930. Marshall called Wiseman and the Koyukuk River area surrounding it, “the happiest civilization of which I have knowledge.” The community is only three miles from the Dalton Highway, but the community was not connected to the road until the early 1990s.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 78.1 square miles (202 km), of which, 78.1 square miles (202 km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km) of it (0.05%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 21 people, 7 households, and 3 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 0.3 people per…
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