Southeast Alaska · AK
Wrangell
A Russian stockade at the mouth of the Stikine.
- Population
- 2,127 (2020 census)
- Russian redoubt
- 1834
- Incorporated
- 1903
Then
- 1834
Baron Wrangel orders Redoubt Saint Dionysius built here, among Tlingit lands.
- 1839
The Hudson's Bay Company leases the fort and calls it Fort Stikine.
- 1903
Wrangell incorporates.
- 2023
A landslide kills six people.
Now
Fishing is the main industry, with logging and tourism. This place covers Zimovia Strait and Clarence Strait's Snow Passage.
18 tide stations around Wrangell
- Wrangell, Wrangell Islandin town
- Greys Island7.2 mi
- Madan Bay9.6 mi
- Blaquiere Point10.1 mi
- Reef Point, Stikine Strait10.6 mi
- Village Rock, Zimovia Strait17.6 mi
- Leconte Bay22.4 mi
- Point Harrington23.6 mi
- Bushy Island, Snow Passage26.9 mi
- Thoms Point, Zimovia Strait26.9 mi
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- Blashke Island31.0 mi
- Beck Island, Clarence Strait34.7 mi
- Thorne Island, Whale Passage36.4 mi
- Bradfield Canal, Ernest Sound36.7 mi
- Lake Bay37.3 mi
- Ratz Harbor, Prince of Wales Island41.7 mi
- Yes Cannery, Yes Bay44.5 mi
- Magnetic Point, Union Bay, Earnest Sound47.7 mi