Hobart Bay is a

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that was located in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska during the 2010 United States Census, but is now part of Petersburg Borough. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the CDP was one, down from three in 2000. The bay was named in 1889 by Lieutenant Commander Mansfield of the

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. The site was first settled as a

logging Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidder, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or trunk (botany), logs onto logging truck, trucksHoonah-Angoon Census Area around it were incorporated into the new Petersburg Borough, which has the city of Petersburg as its economic center and is composed primarily of land from the former Petersburg Census Area.

Geography

Hobart Bay is located at 57°27'11" North, 133°23'36" West (57.453007, -133.393308). According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water. The total area is 9.54% water.

Demographics

Hobart Bay first appeared on the 1990 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP). As of the

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of 2000, there were three people, two households, and one family residing in the CDP. The

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was 0/km². There were seventeen housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was two

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and one Native American. There were two households with no children under the age of eighteen living with them; one was a

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living together, and one was a male individual. In the CDP the population was spread out, with two from twenty-five to forty-four and one from forty-five to sixty-four. The median age was forty-four years. There was one female and two males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $68,750, and the median income for a family was $68,750. The

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for the CDP was $34,900.

References

{{authority control Logging communities in the United States Populated coastal places in Alaska on the Pacific Ocean Populated places in Petersburg Borough, Alaska