York was a mining settlement in the U.S. state of Alaska during the late 19th- and early 20th-century.

The mining camp was located at the mouth of Anikovik River, at Cape York on the Seward Peninsula, about 80 miles (130 km) north-west of Nome and 45 miles (72 km) north-west of Port Clarence. Wales, the westernmost settlement on the mainland United States, is 15 miles (24 km) north-west of York at Cape Prince of Wales.^[1]

In the spring of 1900, York promised to be a place of importance and a post office was established in April, but in the early fall, its population had been reduced to about 20–30. The settlement included a number of log cabins and half a dozen substantial frame buildings. It was a distributing point^{[clarification needed]} for the region to the north, but during the stormy months of the fall, landing at York was difficult.^[2] The post office was closed in 1902^[3] and the settlement's entire population died during the influenza epidemic of 1918 after the disease reached Wales from York where it killed 170 of the town's 310 residents.^[4][5]