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Welcome to Ikatan ...

While we don't have a date for the founding of Ikatan, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1950.

Ikatan is 30 feet [9 m] above sea level.<1>.

Time Zone: Ikatan lies in the Alaskan Time Zone (AKST/AKDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Ikatan: 907

Adding Ikatan to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Ikatan in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Ikatan was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Ikatan post office opened in 1950.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Ikatan.

Footnotes ...

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Ikatan - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/