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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Census area
- Hoonah-Angoon
- Incorporated
- June 8, 1946
- Mayor
- Bill Miller
- State senator
- Bert Stedman ( R )
- State rep
- Rebecca Himschoot ( I )
- Total
- 7.13 sq mi (18.47 km )
- Land
- 5.87 sq mi (15.20 km )
- Water
- 1.27 sq mi (3.28 km )
- Elevation
- 52 ft (16 m)
- Density
- 159/sq mi (61.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
- Fips code
- 02-33360
- Website
- www .cityofhoonah .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Hoonah
- Population
- 931
- Area
- 18.874381
- Elevation
- 16
- Official website
- www.cityofhoonah.org
- Image
- Aerial photo of Hoonah, Alaska.jpg
- Households
- 6
- Dialing code
- 99829
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- postal code
- 99829
- Commons category
- Hoonah, Alaska
- native label
- Gaaw Yat'aḵ Aan
- water as percent of area
- 17.5866
- P8168
- Ronde
- water area
- 3.319364
- per capita income
- 41438
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Hoonah (Tlingit: Xunaa or Gaaw Yat’aḵ Aan) is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of the state. It is 30 miles (48 km) west of Juneau, across the Alaskan Inside Passage. Hoonah is the only first-class city on Chichagof Island, the 109th-largest island in the world and the 5th-largest island in the U.S. At the 2020 census the population was 931, up from 760 in 2010. In the summer the population can swell to over 1,300 depending on fishing, boating, hiking and hunting conditions.
"Hoonah" became the official spelling in 1901, with establishment of the Hoonah branch of the United States Post Office. "Hoonah" is the approximate pronunciation of the Tlingit name Xunaa, which means “lee of the north wind”, i.e., protected from the north wind.