THE YAKUTAT CITY AND BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pacific Coastal Mountains setting.
Yakutat City and Borough has 7,628.4 square miles of land in Alaska. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Yakutat City and 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
Yakutat City and Borough intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pacific Coastal Mountains85.3%
- Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests14.7%
Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests in Yakutat City and 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 Yakutat City and Borough
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Yakutat City and Borough, including Yakutat. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Yakutat City and Borough by land and water
The Census records 1,536.2 square miles of water within Yakutat City and Borough, or 16.8% of its total area. That share is close to Yakutat City and Borough’s 16.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Yakutat City and Borough has 76 times the land area of nearby Yakutat CDP (100.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chugach Census Area, Copper River Census Area, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

