Tatitlek, Alaska
census-designated place in Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States of America
Tatitlek (Alutiiq: Taatiilaaq; Russian: Татитлек) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chugach Census Area, United States. As of the 2020 census, Tatitlek had a population of 90. Tatitlek is in the Chugach School District and has one school, Tatitlek Community School, serving about 15 students from preschool through high school. Tatitlek is served by the Tatitlek Airport.
Geography
Tatitlek is located at 60°52′1″N 146°40′38″W (60.867083, -146.677209).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.3 square miles (19 km2), all of it land.
Tatitlek is located in the Prince William Sound of Alaska and is most famously known as the nearest village to the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill that decimated the area’s fishing resources.
Demographics
Tatitlek first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated village of "Tatikhlek." All 73 of its residents were listed as Inuit, despite being Chugach Alutiiq, who would have been listed as “Tinneh” in the census. In 1890, it returned as "Tatitlak." This also included an unnamed Creole (mixed Russian and Native) village on Cordova (now Orca) Bay. Of the 90 residents, 53 were Native, 36 were Creole and 1 White.
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