 The population was 12 at the 2010 census.The original village was founded a mile southwest of the junction of the John & Koyukuk Rivers in the late 1890s during the Alaska Gold Rush and was named for Gordon C. Bettles, a printer, prospector, and trader who established the trading post and community in 1898.A post office was established in 1901 and continued intermittently until 1956.