Wrangell City and Borough
| Wrangell (Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw) | ||
| Unified Home Rule Borough | ||
 Overview of Wrangell
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| Official name: City and Borough of Wrangell | ||
| Country |  United States of America |
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| State |  Alaska |
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| Elevation | 69 ft (21 m) | |
| Coordinates | 56°23′06″N 132°05′11″W / 56.38500°N 132.08639°WCoordinates: 56°23′06″N 132°05′11″W / 56.38500°N 132.08639°W | |
| Area | 3,462 sq mi (8,967 km2) | |
| - land | 2,541 sq mi (6,581 km2) | |
| - water | 921 sq mi (2,385 km2) | |
| - Area (urban) | 71 sq mi (184 km2) | |
| - land (urban) | 45 sq mi (117 km2) | |
| - water (urban) | 26 sq mi (67 km2) | |
| Population | 2,411 (2016 estimate) | |
| Density | 0.7/sq mi (0.3/km2) | |
| - urban | 33.4/sq mi (12.9/km2) | |
| Founded | 1834 | |
| - English | 1839 | |
| - American | 1867 | |
| - Incorporated | 1903 (as a city); May 30, 2008 (as a borough) | |
| Mayor | David L. Jack | |
| Timezone | AKST (UTC-9) | |
| - summer (DST) | AKDT (UTC-8) | |
| ZIP code | 99929 | |
| Area code | 907 | |
| FIPS codes | 02-275, 02-86380 | |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1415843, 2418874 | |
 Location of Wrangell within Alaska
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| Website: www.wrangell.com | ||
The City and Borough of Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,369. Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area (afterwards renamed the Petersburg Census Area (the Petersburg Borough was formed from part of this census area)). Its Tlingit name is Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw (“Ḵaachx̱an’s Little Lake” with áa-kʼw ‘lake-diminutive’). The Tlingit people residing in the Wrangell area, who were there centuries before Europeans, call themselves the Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan after the nearby Stikine River. Alternately they use the autonym Shxʼát Ḵwáan, where the meaning of shxʼát is unknown.
The central (urban) part of Wrangell is located at 56°28′15″N 132°22′36″W / 56.47083°N 132.37667°W, in the northwest corner of Wrangell Island, whereas the borough now encompasses the entire eastern half of the former Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, in addition to the area around Meyers Chuck, which was formerly in the Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area. It also includes Thoms Place, a former census-designated place on Wrangell Island.
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