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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Borough
- Unorganized
- Census area
- Prince of Wales–Hyder
- Incorporated
- October 29, 1929
- Mayor
- Donald Nickerson Jr.
- State senator
- Bert Stedman ( R )
- State rep
- Rebecca Himschoot ( I )
- Total
- 0.97 sq mi (2.52 km )
- Land
- 0.68 sq mi (1.76 km )
- Water
- 0.29 sq mi (0.75 km ) 34.83%
- Elevation
- 79 ft (24 m)
- Density
- 1,057.5/sq mi (408.32/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( AKST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 ( AKDT )
- Fips code
- 02-40400
- Website
- www .cityofklawock .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Klawock
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area
- Population
- 720
- Area
- 2.543051
- Elevation
- 24
- Official website
- www.cityofklawock.com
- Households
- 148
- Dialing code
- 99625
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- native label
- Lawáak
- inception
- 1868-00-00
- postal code
- 99925
- water as percent of area
- 21.8914
- P8168
- Bubendorf
- water area
- 0.556709
- per capita income
- 35519
- mean age
- 35.8
- Commons category
- Klawock, Alaska
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Encyclopedic overview
Klawock (Tlingit: Lawáak) is a city in Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area, in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, on Klawock Inlet, across from Klawock Island. As of the 2020 census, Klawock had a population of 720. It is located 56 miles (90 km) from Ketchikan, 7 miles (11 km) from Craig, and 24 miles (39 km) from Hollis.
Klawock is the headquarters of the Klawock Cooperative Association, a federally recognized tribe of Tlingit Native Americans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klawock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.