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Sand Point | |
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 Sand Point from the air | |
  Sand Point Location in Alaska  Sand Point Sand Point (North America) | |
| Coordinates: 55°20′12″N 160°29′36″W / 55.33667°N 160.49333°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Borough | Aleutians East |
| Incorporated | September 1, 1966[1] |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor/Council |
| • Mayor | Jim Smith[2] |
| • State senator | Lyman Hoffman (D) |
| • State rep. | Bryce Edgmon (I) |
| Area | |
• Total | 30.29 sq mi (78.46 km2) |
| • Land | 8.01 sq mi (20.75 km2) |
| • Water | 22.28 sq mi (57.71 km2) |
| Elevation | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 578 |
| • Density | 72.16/sq mi (27.86/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-9 (Alaska (AKST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-8 (AKDT) |
| ZIP code | 99661 |
| Area code | 907 |
| FIPS code | 02-67020 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1419182 |
| Website | sandpointak.com |
Sand Point, also known as Popof Island, is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 976, up from 952 in 2000, but by the 2020 Census this had reduced to 578. It is on northwestern Popof Island, one of the Shumagin Islands, off the Alaska Peninsula. It is the borough seat of Aleutians East Borough, and is near the entrance to the Bering Sea.
The Aleutians East Borough School District is in Southwestern Alaska along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Chain The District was formed in 1988 from smaller districts that consolidated and formed a Borough with taxing authority. The Borough and District boundaries are the same, and stretch over approximately 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2) of roadless, mostly treeless tundra, from the middle of the Alaska Peninsula to the north and east, going southwest out to Akutan just east of Dutch Harbor.
- ^ 1996 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory. Juneau: Alaska Municipal League/Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs. January 1996. p. 132.
- ^ 2015 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory. Juneau: Alaska Municipal League. 2015. p. 138.
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.