THE COLD BAY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands setting.
Cold Bay city has 52.5 square miles of land in Aleutians East Borough. Its Census reference point is in Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands.
Rolling glacial deposits form lowland terrain inland from Bristol Bay. Shrub tundra, wetlands and scattered lakes create a varied landscape rather than a uniformly flat coastal plain.
Regional context: Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Cold Bay and Aleutians East Borough
Cold Bay is associated with Aleutians East Borough in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Cold Bay by land and water
The Census records 15.5 square miles of water within Cold Bay, or 22.8% of its total area. It is 30.7 percentage points lower than the 53.5% recorded for Aleutians East Borough. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cold Bay city has 2.1 times the land area of nearby King Cove city (24.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

