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At 663,268 square miles (1,717,856 km 2) in total area, Alaska is by far the largest state in the United States. Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state (Texas), and it is larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. Alaska is the seventh largest subnational division in the world.
It is in Section 18, Township 15 South, Range 2 East, Umiat Meridian, within the Utqiaġvik Recording District. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.9 sq mi (13 km 2), of which 4.8 sq mi (12 km 2) is land and 0.1 sq mi (0.26 km 2) (1.63%) is water.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 13,461 square miles (34,860 km 2), of which 13,311 square miles (34,480 km 2) is land and 150 square miles (390 km 2) (1.1%) is water. [5] It is the second-largest county by area in Arizona and the fifth-largest in the contiguous United States.
The Tangle Lakes in the Alaska Range sit on the divide between the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska watersheds, and are the source of the Delta River. Black River – 90 miles (140 km) Kun River – 65 miles (105 km) Kokechik River – 60 miles (Kashunuk distributary) Kashunuk River – 225 miles (Yukon distributary) Manokinak River – 75 miles ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21 sq mi (54 km 2), of which 3 sq mi (7.8 km 2) are covered by water (14% of the total area). The predominant land type in Utqiagvik is tundra, which is formed over a permafrost layer that is as deep as 1,300 ft (400 m). [30]
The City of Kivalina, organized under the Northwest Arctic Borough under the State of Alaska, has an elected mayor and city administrator and a 7-member city council. [19] Per the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, NANA Corporation owns the surface and sub-surface rights to the city site and surrounding area. [19]
The native people of the area were very helpful to the settlers, and towns began to be platted up and down the Chehalis River. [9] In the 1870s, a party of several families relocated to the area from Crawford County, Illinois. [9] The leader of the party, James Reed Harris, had purchased the donation claim for the area from John Hole for $1200. [9]