Afognak
Kodiak Island · USGS GNIS name record 1397926
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These Census tracts have reference points near Afognak. Their figures describe the entire named tract, not this locality. Open a tract to inspect its map, sources and demographic percentages.
Census tract 3 ↗
Kodiak Island Borough · AK
- Population
- 1,723
- Median home value
- $317,000
Census tract 5 ↗
Kodiak Island Borough · AK
- Population
- 1,823
- Median home value
- Not available
Census tract 2 ↗
Kodiak Island Borough · AK
- Population
- 6,574
- Median home value
- $443,800
Census tract 4 ↗
Kodiak Island Borough · AK
- Population
- 804
- Median home value
- $534,100
The source behind the name
USGS GNIS Populated Place names in all 50 states and DC. Features in the historical extract or explicitly named historical are excluded; duplicate decision records with identical identities and coordinates are collapsed. GNIS points identify names, not legal or neighborhood boundaries, current occupancy, school attendance or a statistical population. Nearby Census places and tracts remain separately named geographies. Name completeness and currency vary; this is not a claim to include every locally used neighborhood name.
Original USGS record for Afognak ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 02/10/2011 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
At the S end of Afognak Island 2.5 mi SE of Litnik Mountain, Kodiak Islands.
The village of this name was destroyed by the March 27, 1964, earthquake; the residents were moved to Kodiak Island and were set up in a new village named Port Lions. The name derives from Afognak Island; reported in the 11th Census of 1890 (1893, p. 73-74) as "Afognak Village (Adognak)" consisting of a series of settlements extending in a row of dwellings, somewhat widely scattered, about three-fourths of a mile along the long, curving beach. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the name Rutkovsky village was applied by pensioned employees of the Russian American Company.
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