THE LAKE AND PENINSULA BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands setting.
Lake and Peninsula Borough has 23,896.6 square miles of land in Alaska. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Lake and Peninsula Borough: Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands, Alaska Peninsula Mountains, Alaska Range, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lake and Peninsula Borough intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bristol Bay-Nushagak Lowlands49.5%
- Alaska Peninsula Mountains25.3%
- Alaska Range13.3%
- Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands11.9%
Alaska Peninsula Mountains in Lake and Peninsula Borough
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.
Read the regional source ↗Alaska Range in Lake and Peninsula Borough
Very high, steep mountains carry extensive icefields, glaciers and rocky slopes. Vegetation is limited in the highest and most exposed portions of the Alaska Range.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Lake and Peninsula Borough
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lake and Peninsula Borough, including Ugashik, Pope-Vannoy Landing, Port Heiden. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lake and Peninsula Borough by land and water
The Census records 9,913.9 square miles of water within Lake and Peninsula Borough, or 29.3% of its total area. That share is close to Lake and Peninsula Borough’s 29.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lake and Peninsula Borough has 93.7 times the land area of nearby Ugashik CDP (255 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aleutians East Borough, Bethel Census Area, Bristol Bay Borough, Dillingham Census Area, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Kodiak Island Borough within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.