Home › Alaska › Aleutians East Borough

Aleutians East Borough, Alaska

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

0historic places

—earliest paper

1990formed

3,420pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Alaska is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Aleutians East titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Aleutians East was formed in 1990 (1990-04-01) from unknown / original county.

1990 census. Aleutians East Borough served as a census division. Aleutians East Borough created 23 October 1987 from part of Aleutian Islands Census Area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Aleutians East Borough population from 1990 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1990	2000	2020
2,464	2,697	3,420

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

4 cemeteries and 9 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cold Bay Trout Creek Cemetery	55.2361	-162.71907
False Pass Cemetery	54.8549	-163.41555
King Cove Cemetery	55.06215	-162.311
Trident Tree Cemetery	55.33644	-160.50084

Historical populated places — 9 of 9

Name	Lat	Lon
Itchadak	53.99782	-166.06254
Nosovskoi	54.48333	-164.88333
Pogromni	54.66667	-164.75
Seredka	54.16667	-165.48333
Sisaguk	54.65	-163.3
Squaw Harbor	55.24333	-160.55333
Tigalda	54.1	-165.08333
Unalga	53.98333	-166.16667
Unangashik	56.83333	-158.95

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Aleutians East County, Alaska

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.