THE HAINES BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pacific Coastal Mountains setting.
Haines Borough has 2,334.9 square miles of land in Alaska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Haines Borough: Pacific Coastal Mountains, Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests.
Coastal Alaska's steep, wet mountains include large areas of glacial terrain. Rocky slopes and ice-covered highlands contrast with lower shrub-covered settings where vegetation can establish.
Regional context: Pacific Coastal Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Haines Borough intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pacific Coastal Mountains75.3%
- Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests24.7%
Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests in Haines Borough
Deep bays, steep valley walls and an irregular shoreline reveal intense past glaciation. Wet maritime forests of hemlock and Sitka spruce characterize southeastern and south-central coastal Alaska.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Haines Borough
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Haines Borough, including Lutak, Mosquito Lake, Excursion Inlet. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Haines Borough by land and water
The Census records 398.6 square miles of water within Haines Borough, or 14.6% of its total area. That share is close to Haines Borough’s 14.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Haines Borough has 192.4 times the land area of nearby Mud Bay CDP (12.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Juneau City and Borough, Skagway Municipality within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.