Nulato (/nuːˈlætoʊ/; Noolaaghe Doh /nuːlaːɣə tɔːχ/ "chum salmon fish camp" in Koyukon; Russian: Нулато) is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States.

[4] The Kokukuk River people massacred a large part of the population of Nulato on February 16, 1851, during the Athapaskan uprising.

[4] After the Alaska Purchase, a United States military telegraph line was constructed along the north side of the Yukon River.

The gold rush along the Yukon River that began in 1884 brought many new diseases to the area and many people died.

[citation needed] Gold prospectors left the Yukon River area for Fairbanks and Nome in 1906.

It is across the Yukon River from the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge.The area experiences a cold, continental climate with extreme temperature differences.

The town is serviced by Nulato Airport which has regularly scheduled flights to Galena, Kaltag[8] and Koyukuk.

[citation needed] Nulato residents are predominantly Koyukon, an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.

The Koyukon Athabascans had seasonal camps in this area and moved when the wild game migrated.