Loring, Alaska, Naha Bay
Kax̱.àan | |
|---|---|
.jpeg) S.S. Kayak, a steamship, entering the slip at a cannery dock in Loring, July 1904 | |
  Loring Location of Loring, Alaska | |
| Coordinates: 55°36′11″N 131°38′13″W / 55.60306°N 131.63694°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Borough | Ketchikan Gateway |
| Government | |
| • Borough mayor | David Landis[1] |
| • State senator | Bert Stedman (R) |
| • State rep. | Dan Ortiz (I) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.63 sq mi (1.63 km2) |
| • Land | 0.55 sq mi (1.43 km2) |
| • Water | 0.08 sq mi (0.20 km2) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 0 |
| • Density | 0.00/sq mi (0.00/km2) |
| FIPS code | 02-45020 |
Loring (Lingít: Kax̱.àan) was established in 1885 with the first post office in the District of Alaska and is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, The population is 0, down from 4 at the 2010 census,[3] although the number increases in summer months.
Located due north of downtown Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island, Loring was once Ketchikan's rival as the service center for the area's fishing and timber industries.
- ^ 2015 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory. Juneau: Alaska Municipal League. 2015. p. 10.
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
- ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Loring CDP, Alaska". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Archived from the original on February 10, 2020. Retrieved March 26, 2013.