Wrangell Alaska

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(Sec. 25, T062S, R083E, Copper River Meridian.)</div> <bR> <div> Wrangell is located in the Wrangell Recording District. The area encompasses 45.3 sq. miles of land and 25.6 sq. miles of water.</div> <bR> <div> Wrangell is in the maritime climatic zone and experiences cool summers, mild winters, and year-round rainfall.</div> <bR> <div> Summer temperatures typically range from 42 to 64; winter temperatures range from 21 to 44.</div> <div> Average annual precipitation is 82 inches, including 64 inches of snowfall.</div> <div> Fog is common from September through December.</div> <div> <B>Organizations with Local Offices</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006699" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Chamber of Commerce - </B>Wrangell Chamber of Commerce</div> <div> P.O. Box 49</div> <div> Wrangell, AK 99929</div> <div> Phone 907-874-3901</div> <div> Fax 907-874-3905</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >wchamber@gci.net</FONT></div> <div> Web <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.wrangellchamber.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wrangellchamber.org">www.wrangellchamber.org</A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>City - </B>City of Wrangell</div> <div> P.O. Box 531</div> <div> Wrangell, AK 99929</div> <div> Phone 907-874-2381</div> <div> Fax 907-874-3952</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >ctyclerk@aptalaska.net</FONT></div> <div> Web <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.wrangell.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wrangell.com">www.wrangell.com</A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Media - </B>Wrangell Sentinel</div> <div> P.O. Box 798</div> <div> Wrangell, AK 99929</div> <div> Phone 907-874-2301</div> <div> Fax 907-874-2303</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >wrgsent@aptalaska.net</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>School District - </B>Wrangell Public School District</div> <div> P. O. Box 2319</div> <div> Wrangell, AK 99929-2319</div> <div> Phone 907-874-2347</div> <div> Fax 907-874-3137</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >kimberly_powell@fc.wsd.k12.ak.us</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Web </FONT>http://<A HREF="http://www.wrangellschools.org " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wrangellschools.org ">www.wrangellschools.org</A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.wrangellschools.org " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wrangellschools.org "> </A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Village Council - </B>Wrangell Cooperative Association</div> <div> P.O. Box 868</div> <div> Wrangell, AK 99929</div> <div> Phone 907-874-2612</div> <div> Fax 907-874-2918</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >walkerak@aptalaska.net</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Regional Organizations</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006699" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Regional Native Corporation - </B>Sealaska Corporation</div> <div> One Sealaska Plaza #400</div> <div> Juneau, AK 99801</div> <div> Phone 907-586-1512</div> <div> Fax 907-586-2304</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >chris.mcneil@sealaska.com</FONT></div> <div> Web <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.sealaska.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sealaska.com/">www.sealaska.com/</A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Regional Native Health Corporation</B> - Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium</div> <div> 3245 Hospital Dr.</div> <div> Juneau, AK 99801</div> <div> Phone 907-463-4000</div> <div> Fax 907-463-4075</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >ken.brewer@searhc.org</FONT></div> <div> Web <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.searhc.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.searhc.org">www.searhc.org</A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Regional Native Non-Profit - </B>Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska</div> <div> 320 W. Willoughby Ave., Suite 300</div> <div> Juneau, AK 99801</div> <div> Phone 907-586-1432</div> <div> Fax 907-586-8970</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >econdev@ccthita.org</FONT></div> <div> Web <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.ccthita.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ccthita.org">www.ccthita.org</A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Native Housing Authority - </B>Tlingit-Haida Reg Housing Authority</div> <div> P.O. Box 32237</div> <div> Juneau, AK 99803</div> <div> Phone 907-780-6868</div> <div> Fax 907-780-6895</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >thrha@thrha.org</FONT></div> <div> Web <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.thrha.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thrha.org">www.thrha.org</A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Regional Development - </B>Southeast Conference</div> <div> P.O. Box 21989</div> <div> Juneau, 99802</div> <div> Phone 907-463-3445 x23</div> <div> Fax 907-463-4425</div> <div> E-mail <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >rollo@seconference.org</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Web </FONT>http://<A HREF="http://www.seconference.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.seconference.org">www.seconference.org</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Facilities, Utilities, Schools and Health Care</B></div> <div> Approximately 95% of households are fully plumbed. Two surface reservoirs south of town supply 64 million gallons of water, which is filtered, treated and piped to most households.</div> <div> Sewage receives secondary treatment at the Shoemaker Bay plant. About 20% of residences have individual septic tanks. The City is extending piped water and sewer to Zimovia Highway to eliminate individual systems.</div> <div> The City provides garbage collection service, a recycling facility, and annual hazardous waste disposal events. An incinerator is scheduled to be completed by 1999.</div> <div> Wrangell Municipal Light & Power purchases electricity from the state-owned Tyee Lake Hydro Facility, located 40 miles southeast. The City also owns 7 standby diesel-fueled generators.</div> <div> Funds have been requested to examine the hydroelectric and drinking water potential of Sunrise Lake, on Woronkofski Island. Electricity is provided by Wrangell Municipal Light & Power.</div> <div> There are 3 schools located in the community, attended by 437 students.</div> <div> Local hospitals or health clinics include Wrangell Medical Center (907-874-7164); Stikine Family Clinic (907-828-7105).</div> <div> The medical center is a qualified Acute Care and Long Term Care facility.</div> <div> Wrangell is classified as a large town/Regional Center, it is found in EMS Region 3A in the Southeast Region.</div> <div> Emergency Services have limited highway, marine, floatplane and airport access.</div> <div> Emergency service is provided by 911 Telephone Service and volunteers Auxiliary health care is provided by Wrangell Volunteer Fire Dept./Rescue (874-3223).</div> <bR> <div> <B>Economy and Transportation</B></div> <div> Wrangell's economy is based on commercial fishing and timber from the Tongass National Forest. Fishing and fish processing are an important segment of the economy. 250 residents hold commercial fishing permits. Dive fisheries are also under development -- 60 divers harvest sea urchins, sea cucumbers and geoducks.</div> <div> Although Wrangell offers a deep-water port, they cater to the smaller cruise ships.</div> <div> Stikine River sportfishing attracts independent travelers.</div> <div> The Alaska Pulp Corp. sawmill was sold to Silver Bay Logging and reopened in April 1998 with 33 employees.</div> <div> The City is accessible by air and water.</div> <div> The State-owned 6,000' long by 150' wide paved lighted runway enables jet service.</div> <div> A seaplane base is adjacent to the runway. Scheduled air taxi services are also available.</div> <div> The marine facilities include a breakwater, deep draft dock, State Ferry terminal, two small boat harbors with 498 slips, and boat launch. Freight arrives by barge, ship, ferry and cargo plane.</div> <bR> <div> <B>History, Culture and Demographics</B></div> <div> Wrangell is one of the oldest non-Native settlements in Alaska.</div> <div> In 1811, the Russians began fur trading with area Tlingits, and built a stockade named Redoubt Saint Dionysius in 1834.</div> <div> The Island was named for Ferdinand Von Wrangel, manager of the Russian-American Co. around 1830.</div> <div> The British of Hudson's Bay Co. leased the fort in 1840, and named the stockade Fort Stikine.</div> <div> A large Stikine Indian village known as Kotzlitzna was located 13 miles south of the fort.</div> <div> The Tlingits claimed their own ancient trade rights to the Stikine River, and protested when the Hudson Bay Company began to use their trade routes.</div> <div> But two epidemics of smallpox, in 1836 and 1840, reduced the Tlingit population by half.</div> <div> The fort was abandoned in 1849 when furs were depleted.</div> <div> The fort remained under the British flag until Alaska's purchase by the U.S. in 1867.</div> <div> In 1868, a U.S. military post called Fort Wrangell was established, named for the Island.</div> <div> The community continued to grow as an outfitter for gold prospectors in 1861, 1874-77, and in 1897. Riotous activity filled gambling halls, dance halls, and the streets.</div> <div> Thousands of miners traveled up the Stikine River into the Cassiar District of British Columbia during 1874, and again to the Klondike in 1897.</div> <div> Glacier Packing Company began operating in Wrangell in 1889. The Wilson & Sylvester Sawmill provided packing boxes for canneries, and lumber for construction.</div> <div> The City was incorporated in 1903.</div> <div> By 1916, fishing and forest products had become the primary industries -- four canneries and a cold storage plant were constructed by the late 1920s. In the 1930s, cold packing of crab and shrimp was occurring.</div> <div> Abundant spruce and hemlock resources have helped to expand the lumber and wood products industry.</div> <div> The Alaska Pulp Corporation sawmill, Wrangell's largest employer, closed in late 1994. </div> <div> A federally-recognized tribe is located in the community -- the Wrangell Cooperative Assoc..</div> <div> The population of the community consists of 23.8% Alaska Native or part Native. Wrangell is primarily a non-Native community with a mixture of Tlingit, Russian, British and American historical influences.</div> <div> Logging and fishing have supported the community.</div> <div> During the 2000 U.S. Census, total housing units numbered 1,092, and vacant housing units numbered 185. Vacant housing units used only seasonally numbered 11. U.S. Census data for Year 2000 showed 1,081 residents as employed.</div> <div> The unemployment rate at that time was 8.48 percent, although 36.82 percent of all adults were not in the work force. The median household income was $43,250, per capita income was $21,851, and 8.97 percent of residents were living below the poverty level.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="advertise.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Advertise"> <img src="HTMLobj-1033/aniGif.gif" alt="Rent this Space" border="0" align="bottom" width="468" height="60">  </A></div> <bR> <div> Web Site by: AST2.com   <A HREF="web_site_services.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Web Site Services">Low Cost Business Sites</A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>