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Skagway
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consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States of America
Skagway is a consolidated city-borough located in Alaska that combines city and borough government into a single administration. It serves as a municipality in the United States with this unique combined governmental structure.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Incorporated city
- June 28, 1900
- Incorporated borough
- June 5, 2007
- Mayor
- Sam Bass
- State senator
- Jesse Kiehl ( D )
- State rep
- Sara Hannan (D)
- Borough
- 9.49 sq mi (24.59 km )
- Land
- 9.44 sq mi (24.46 km )
- Water
- 0.046 sq mi (0.12 km )
- Elevation
- 33 ft (10 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 1,104
- Density
- 131/sq mi (50.7/km )
- Urban cdp
- 1,164
- Time zone
- UTC−9 ( AKST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−8 ( AKDT )
- Fips code
- 02-70760
- Gnis feature id
- 1414754 , 2339479
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- consolidated city-county
- Official name
- Skagway
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hoonah–Angoon Census Area
- Population
- 920
- Area
- 24.601947
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- Alaska Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Haines Borough
- Official website
- www.skagway.org
- Image
- Skagway aerial view.jpg
- Households
- 411
- Dialing code
- 907
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- KLT
- Commons category
- Skagway, Alaska
- topic's main category
- Category:Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska
- Commons gallery
- Skagway, Alaska
- postal code
- 99840
- inception
- 2007-06-05
- native label
- Skagway
- per capita income
- 41842
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Municipality and Borough of Skagway (Tlingit: Shg̱agwei) is a borough and city in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, up from 968 in 2010. The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with the large number of summer tourists each year. Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007, it was previously a city (urban Skagway located at 59°27′30″N 135°18′50″W / 59.45833°N 135.31389°W / 59.45833; -135.31389) in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area (now the Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska). The most populated community is the census-designated place of Skagway.
Rail car of the White Pass and Yukon Route in Skagway, Alaska
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skagway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
2 mapped locations