THE HOONAH-ANGOON CENSUS AREA LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests setting.
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area has 6,559.7 square miles of land in Alaska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Hoonah-Angoon Census Area: Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests, Pacific Coastal Mountains.
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.
Regional context: Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests61.6%
- Pacific Coastal Mountains38.4%
Pacific Coastal Mountains in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, including Elfin Cove, Gustavus, Angoon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area by land and water
The Census records 3,025.7 square miles of water within Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, or 31.6% of its total area. That share is close to Hoonah-Angoon Census Area’s 31.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area has 188.1 times the land area of nearby Gustavus city (34.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Haines Borough, Juneau City and Borough, Petersburg Borough, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Sitka City and Borough, Yakutat City and Borough within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.