ALASKA BOROUGHS and CENSUS AREAS |
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Alaska is unique among the states. It's extremely large, much of the state is sparsely populated, and much of the state has not been divided into local governing units in the manner of counties. Instead of local divisions of government established as counties, Alaska is divided into a group of 16 administrative units, called boroughs, and 11 geographical census areas. The population figures given below are from the 2000 census. You may list the counties by county name, by area in square miles, by year organized or by population by clicking on the column headings or using the pull-down list box. |
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| Borough | Area (sq miles) | County Seat | Established | Population (2000) |
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| Aleutians East Borough | 6,985 | Sand Point | 1987 | 2,697 |
| Anchorage Borough | 1,698 | Anchorage | 1975 | 260,283 |
| Bristol Bay Borough | 519 | Naknek | 1962 | 1,258 |
| Denali Borough | 12,750 | Healy | 1990 | 1,893 |
| Fairbanks North Star Borough | 7,362 | Fairbanks | 1964 | 82,840 |
| Haines Borough | 2,357 | Haines | 1968 | 2,392 |
| Juneau Borough | 2,594 | Juneau | 1970 | 30,711 |
| Kenai Peninsula Borough | 16,079 | Soldotna | 1964 | 49,691 |
| Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 1,220 | Ketchikan | 1963 | 14,070 |
| Kodiak Island Borough | 6,463 | Kodiak | 1963 | 13,913 |
| Lake and Peninsula Borough | 23,632 | King Salmon | 1989 | 1,823 |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 24,694 | Palmer | 1964 | 59,322 |
| North Slope Borough | 87,860 | Barrow | 1972 | 7,385 |
| Northwest Arctic Borough | 35,862 | Kotzebue | 1986 | 7,208 |
| Sitka Borough | 2,882 | Sitka | 1971 | 8,835 |
| Yakutat City and Borough | 7,650 | Yakutat | 1992 | 808 |
| Census Area | Area | County Seat | Established | Population (2000) |
| Aleutians West Census Area | 4,402 | 5,465 | ||
| Bethel Census Area | 41,087 | 16,006 | ||
| Dillingham Census Area | 23,013 | 4,922 | ||
| Nome Census Area | 23,013 | 9,196 | ||
| Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area | 7,324 | 6,146 | ||
| Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 12,881 | 3,436 | ||
| Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 25,994 | 6,174 | ||
| Valdez-Cordova Census Area | 36,945 | 10,195 | ||
| Wade Hampton Census Area | 17,124 | 7,028 | ||
| Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area | 5,808 | 6,684 | ||
| Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 157,121 | 6,551 | ||
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Source: United States Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov, December 11, 2006.
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About Counties: Overview of counties from the National Association of Counties. History of County Government: Three-part history of county government in the United States from the National Association of Counties. The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950-2000, by Joseph Nathan Cane and updated by by Charles Curry Aiken. Purchase the premiere guide to information on the histories of the names, sizes, and populations of the counties of the United States. Scarecrow Press; 5th edition (December 28, 2004) 560 pages. County Name Origins of the United States by Michael A. Beatty. This thorough and carefully prepared work is recommended for medium to large academic and public libraries. McFarland & Company (May 2001) 665 pages. |
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