Pilot Station () is a city in

Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska Kusilvak Census Area, formerly known as Wade Hampton Census Area, is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,368, up from 7,459 in 2010. It is part of the Unorganized Borough and therefo ...

, United States. The population was 615 at the 2020 census, up from 568 in 2010, and up from 550 in 2000.

Geography

Pilot Station is located at (61.936050, -162.883403), on the northern bank of the lower

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, approximately eighty miles ('as the crow flies') from the Bering Sea. According to the

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, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (25.55%) is water.

Demographics

Pilot Station first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Eskimo (Yup'ik) village of "Ankahchagmiut." It did not report again until 1920, then as Pilot Station. It formally incorporated in 1969. At the 2020 census, there were 615 people, 152 households and 73 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 152 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup was 97.7% Native American (Yup'ik), 1.3%

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and 2.1% from two or more races. There were 152 households, of which 61.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.2% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no partner present, 5.3% had a male with no partner present. 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. 41.5% of the population are under the age of 18, 58.5% from 18 and over, and 4.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age is 24.4 years. There were 299 females, and 316 males. ' 000 data

Education

K-12 students attend Pilot Station School, operated by the

Lower Yukon School District Lower Yukon School District is a school district headquartered in Mountain Village, Alaska, serving the Kusilvak Census Area. As of the 2017-18 school year, it has 1,998 students across 10 schools. 91% are American Indian or Alaska Native and 5 ...

References

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