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Also known as City and Borough of Yakutat, Yakutat, Alaska, Yakutat, AK

consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States

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Yakutat is a city and consolidated city-county located in Alaska, United States. The community, which has the native label Yaakwdáat, was established on September 22, 1992. It is named after Yakutat Bay and operates within the Alaska Time Zone. The postal code for the area is 99689.

The municipality has a population of 662 people across 221 households, with a mean age of 31.9. The total area is 24,509, of which 3.4885 percent is water, covering an area of 9.407367. Elevation above sea level is recorded as 21. The per capita income is 32,861.

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Place details

Locality
Yakutat
Region
Alaska
Country
United States
Population
662

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Air quality

26US AQIGood
PM2.5
3.8 µg/m³
PM10
5.4 µg/m³
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Key facts

Country
United States
State
Alaska
Incorporated
September 22, 1992
Borough seat
Yakutat
Mayor
Cindy Bremner
Borough
7,623 sq mi (19,744 km )
Urban cdp
104.1 sq mi (269.6 km )
Land cdp
100.5 sq mi (260.3 km )
Water cdp
3.6 sq mi (9.3 km )
Elevation
112 ft (34 m)
Density
6.6/sq mi (2.53/km )
Urban density
6.31/sq mi (2.44/km )
Time zone
UTC–9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
Summer dst
UTC–8 (AKDT)
Fips code
02-99282 (borough), 02-86490 (CDP)
Gnis feature id
1415858 , 1419986
Sales tax
5.0%
Website
yakutatak.us

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Wikidata facts

Named after
Yakutat Bay
Located in
Alaska
Population
657
Area
24509
Elevation
21
Image
Yakutat-Bay01.jpg
Households
221
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Commons category
Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
topic's main category
Category:Yakutat, Alaska
native label
Yaakwdáat
inception
1992-09-22
water as percent of area
3.4885
water area
9.407367
per capita income
32861
mean age
31.9
postal code
99689
NCI Thesaurus ID
C107782
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Travel guide

Understand

Though Yakutat's population was only 662 in 2010, it has regular passenger flights, some in Boeing 737-400s, to its airport, which was built for an Army Air Force base during World War II.

Get in

There are no roads connecting Yakutat to other parts of Alaska.

See

thumb|Aerial photograph of the front of Hubbard Glacier in Yakutat Bay, November 2010

Do

thumb|Aerial photograph: Surf's up at Ocean Cape Yakutat is the surfing capital of Alaska.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

The City and Borough of Yakutat (/ˈjækətæt/, YAK-ə-tat; Tlingit: Yaakwdáat) is a borough in the state of Alaska. Yakutat was also the name of a former city within the borough. The name in Tlingit is Yaakwdáat (meaning "the place where canoes rest"). It is derived from an Eyak name, diyaʼqudaʼt, and was influenced by the Tlingit word yaakw ("canoe, boat").

The borough covers an area about six times the size of the state of Rhode Island, making it one of the nation's largest counties or county equivalents. As of the 2020 census the population was 657. As of 2010, it was Alaska's least populous borough or census area, and the ninth-least populous county nationwide. The population declined from 680 in 2000.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yakutat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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