Did you know that America's remotest spot, near the Ipnavik River, did not used to be as remote as it is today?
If we define "remoteness" as the distance from roads and permanent habitations, then the former settlement of Brady, AK (N68.97, W158.47, see Satellite Map for location) would not only have made America's remotest spot less remote, but it would have skewed its location southwest of where it lies now.
Brady was established in about 1958 as a year-round "camp" of the United States Geological Survey. For the next few years, approximately twenty cabins were built and inhabitated there. The camp was eventually abandoned in about 1963. In 1977, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers demolished all cabins but one, which remains today as a seasonal family cabin.
- Ryan Jordan
[Source: Bob Shears, Barrow, AK, as told to Ryan Jordan]
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