THE WRANGELL CITY AND BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests setting.
Wrangell City and Borough has 2,556.1 square miles of land in Alaska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Wrangell City and Borough: 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
Wrangell City and Borough intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests61.8%
- Pacific Coastal Mountains38.2%
Pacific Coastal Mountains in Wrangell City and Borough
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 Wrangell City and Borough
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wrangell City and Borough, including Wrangell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wrangell City and Borough by land and water
The Census records 915 square miles of water within Wrangell City and Borough, or 26.4% of its total area. That share is close to Wrangell City and Borough’s 26.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
The Census boundary meets Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Petersburg Borough, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.