Wrangell
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consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Founded
- 1834 ( 1834 )
- Incorporated
- 1903 (as a city); May 30, 2008 (as a borough)
- Named after
- Ferdinand von Wrangel
- Mayor
- Patricia Gilbert
- Unified borough
- 3,476.61 sq mi (9,004.37 km )
- Land
- 2,556.00 sq mi (6,620.00 km )
- Water
- 920.61 sq mi (2,384.38 km )
- Urban
- 71 sq mi (180 km )
- Elevation
- 69 ft (21 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 2,007
- Density
- 0.83/sq mi (0.32/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( AKST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 ( AKDT )
- Fips codes
- 02-275 , 02-86380
- Gnis feature ids
- 1415843 , 2418874
- Website
- wrangell .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw, Russian: Врангель, romanized: Vrangel') is a borough in Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was around 2,127, down from 2,369 in 2010.
Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, which was afterwards renamed the Petersburg Census Area (the Petersburg Borough was formed from part of this census area). Its Tlingit name is Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw ("Ḵaachx̱ans Little Lake" with áa-kʼw 'lake-diminutive'). The Tlingit people living 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. They are enrolled in the Wrangell Cooperative Association, a federally recognized tribe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wrangell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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