Yakutat
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consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States
OverviewAI-generated
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
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- consolidated city-county
- Named after
- Yakutat Bay
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Alaska
- Population
- 657
- Area
- 24509
- Elevation
- 21
- Time zone
- Alaska Time Zone
- Official website
- www.yakutatak.govoffice2.com
- 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
- P12749
- Coppermine expedition
- postal code
- 99689
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C107782
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
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.