Chignik, Alaska

About Chignik

Chignik, AK is a tiny community located in southern Alaska with an estimated population of 86.

Chignik holds the status of an incorporated city with its own municipal government. The community covers 10.95 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 8 residents per square mile.

📰 Chignik News Today

• Arlene Gale Kopun Obituary (2026) - Anchorage, AK - Janssen’s Mat-Su Funeral Home - Palmer Legacy obituary · Aug 16
• Fiber Break Cuts Off Six Alaska Towns Broadband Breakfast · May 29
• Monitoring the Restless Earth for the Next “Big One” Marine Technology News · Feb 20
• The 29 July 2021 MW 8.2 Chignik, Alaska Peninsula Earthquake Rupture Inferred From Seismic and Geodetic Observations: Re‐Rupture of the Western 2/3 of the 1938 Rupture Zone AGU Publications · Feb 14
• Rapid shallow megathrust afterslip from the 2021 M8.2 Chignik, Alaska earthquake revealed by seafloor geodesy Science | AAAS · Apr 26

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What Makes Chignik Unique

• The only place in America named Chignik — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• With 86 residents, it's one of America's smallest incorporated communities — everybody really does know everybody.
• One of the northernmost communities in the lower 48 states.
• Alaska living: vast wilderness, midnight sun in summer, and true frontier spirit.
• Positioned in southern Alaska, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 2+ neighboring communities within 16 miles.

🏫 Schools in Chignik

• Chignik Bay School

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

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