THE ALEUTIANS EAST BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Alaska Peninsula Mountains setting.
Aleutians East Borough has 6,985.4 square miles of land in Alaska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Aleutians East Borough: Alaska Peninsula Mountains, Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands, Aleutian Islands.
Volcanoes rise above folded ridges on the Alaska Peninsula. Past glaciation and volcanic deposits shape a maritime mountain landscape with low shrub and tundra vegetation.
Regional context: Alaska Peninsula Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Aleutians East Borough intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Alaska Peninsula Mountains62.8%
- Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands33.6%
- Aleutian Islands3.6%
Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands in Aleutians East Borough
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.
Read the regional source ↗Aleutian Islands in Aleutians East Borough
A volcanic island chain combines steep peaks with older eroded terrain. Maritime conditions support low vegetation, with exposed uplands differing from more sheltered grassy areas.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Aleutians East Borough
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Aleutians East Borough, including Nelson Lagoon, Akutan, Cold Bay. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Aleutians East Borough by land and water
The Census records 8,030.8 square miles of water within Aleutians East Borough, or 53.5% of its total area. That share is close to Aleutians East Borough’s 53.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Aleutians East Borough has 283.4 times the land area of nearby King Cove city (24.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aleutians West Census Area, Lake and Peninsula Borough within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

