Yakutat Borough, Alaska
| City and Borough of Yakutat | |
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| Home Rule Borough | |
Yakutat Bay
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 Map of Alaska highlighting Yakutat City and Borough |
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| Coordinates: 59°32′49″N 139°43′38″W / 59.54694°N 139.72722°WCoordinates: 59°32′49″N 139°43′38″W / 59.54694°N 139.72722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Borough seat | Yakutat |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ralph Wolfe |
| Area | |
| • Borough | 9,463 sq mi (24,509 km2) |
| • Land | 7,649 sq mi (19,812 km2) |
| • Water | 1,813 sq mi (4,697 km2) |
| • Urban (CDP) | 104.1 sq mi (269.6 km2) |
| • Land (CDP) | 100.5 sq mi (260.3 km2) |
| • Water (CDP) | 3.6 sq mi (9.3 km2) |
| Elevation | 69 ft (21 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Borough | 662 |
| • Density | 0.070/sq mi (0.027/km2) |
| • Urban (CDP) | 662 |
| • Urban density | 6.4/sq mi (2.5/km2) |
| Time zone | Alaska (AKST) (UTC-9) |
| FIPS code |
02-282 (borough), 02-86490 (CDP) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1415858, 1419986 |
| Website | yakutatak |
The City and Borough of Yakutat (/ˈjækəˌtæt/, YACK-ə-TAT) (Tlingit: Yaakwdáat) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Incorporated as a non-unified Home Rule Borough on September 22, 1992, Yakutat was previously a city in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area (afterwards renamed the Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area). The name is Tlingit, Yaakwdáat ("the place where canoes rest") but it originally derives 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 U.S. state of Rhode Island, making it one of the largest “counties” in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 662.
The U.S. Census Bureau has defined the former City of Yakutat as a census-designated place within the borough. The only other significant population center in the borough is the community of Icy Bay, the site of the Icy Bay Airport, in the west-central part of the borough.
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