Whitestone Logging Camp (

Lingít The Tlingit or Lingít ( ) are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. , they constitute two of the 231 federally recognized Tribes of Alaska. Most Tlingit are Alaska Natives; however, some are First Nations in Can ...

: ''Yan Kashada Tináa'') is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) on

Chichagof Island Chichagof Island (), or Shee Kaax, is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Alaska Panhandle. At long and wide, it has a land area of , making it the fifth largest island in the United States and the 109th largest island in the world ...

in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area,

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, United States. In 2010, the population was 17,
down from 116 in 2000. It is not to be confused with Whitestone, Alaska, Whitestone, another CDP in

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area Southeast Fairbanks Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,808, down from 7,029 in 2010. It is part of the unorganized borough and therefore has no borough seat. Its lar ...

Geography

Whitestone Logging Camp is located on the northern side of Chichagof Island at (58.085264, -135.448453). It lies adjacent to the south side of the city of

Hoonah Hoonah ( or ''Gaaw Yat’aḵ Aan'') is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of the state. It is west of Juneau, across the Alaskan Inside Passage. Hoonah is the only first- ...

. The community of Game Creek lies adjacent to its southwest side. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

Whitestone Logging Camp first appeared on the 1990 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP). At the 2000 census, there were 116 people, 36 households and 28 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 45 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.24%

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, 2.59% Native American, 0.86% Asian, and 4.31% from two or more races. There were 36 households, of which 52.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.9% were married couples living together, and 22.2% were non-families. 22.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.57. 33.6% of the population were under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 33.6% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 0.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 146.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 165.5 males. The

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was $60,625 and the median family income was $64,375. Males had a median income of $72,083 compared with $27,917 for females. The

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for the CDP was $21,810. None of the population and none of the families were below the

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References

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Geography

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