THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Alaska Peninsula Mountains setting.
Kodiak Island Borough has 6,689.5 square miles of land in Alaska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Kodiak Island Borough: Alaska Peninsula Mountains, Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests.
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
Kodiak Island Borough intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Alaska Peninsula Mountains90.3%
- Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests9.6%
Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests in Kodiak Island 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 Kodiak Island Borough
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kodiak Island Borough, including Aleneva, Karluk, Womens Bay. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kodiak Island Borough by land and water
The Census records 5,462.6 square miles of water within Kodiak Island Borough, or 45% of its total area. That share is close to Kodiak Island Borough’s 45%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kodiak Island Borough has 1,658.7 times the land area of nearby Larsen Bay city (4.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Kenai Peninsula Borough, Lake and Peninsula Borough within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.