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Port Lions
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city in the Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Borough
- Kodiak Island
- Incorporated
- January 24, 1966
- Mayor
- Dorinda Kewan
- State senator
- Gary Stevens ( R )
- State rep
- Louise Stutes (R)
- Total
- 8.73 sq mi (22.60 km )
- Land
- 4.98 sq mi (12.91 km )
- Water
- 3.74 sq mi (9.69 km )
- Elevation
- 98 ft (30 m)
- Density
- 34.1/sq mi (13.16/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
- Fips code
- 02-63610
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Port Lions (Masiqsirraq in Alutiiq) is a city located on Kodiak Island in the Kodiak Island Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, Port Lions had a population of 170.
Port Lions is the headquarters of the Native Village of Port Lions, a federally recognized Alaska Native tribe. The community was built to house the inhabitants of Ag'waneq from the neighboring island of Afognak and Port Wakefield from Raspberry Island, after their villages were destroyed by the Good Friday earthquake in 1964. Port Lions was built with help from the United States government and the Lions Club. It was named in honor of the club.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Port Lions” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.