Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Akhiok, AK

Akhiok (Alutiiq: Kasukuak) is a second-class city in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, and it is Kodiak's southernmost village, located at Alitak Bay at the southern end of Kodiak Island, about 80 miles southwest of the city of Kodiak.

The 2020 census recorded a population of 63 in Akhiok, with 30 households and 36 housing units, and the city was incorporated on November 20, 1972.

Akhiok is an Alutiiq village dependent on fishing and subsistence activities; the original village of Kashukugniut was occupied by Russians in the early 19th century as a sea otter hunting settlement at Humpy Cove, and the name Akhiok was first reported in the 1880 census.

In 1881 residents relocated to the present site at Alitak Bay, in part because of a switch to a fishing economy, and most families gain their livelihood from fishing for salmon and halibut or from working in a nearby cannery.

The community's Russian Orthodox church, Protection of the Theotokos Chapel, was built around 1900 at the site of an earlier structure, and a post office was established in Akhiok in 1933.

Residents of nearby Kaguyak relocated to Akhiok after the 1964 earthquake and tsunami destroyed their village.

Akhiok is the headquarters of the Native Village of Akhiok and Kaguyak Village, both federally recognized Alaska Native tribes of Alutiiq people.

Since January 2003, each Akhiok shareholder has received 200,000 dollars from sales of a 36-million-dollar trust fund provided in the Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement.

The city is accessible only by air and water, with a state-owned gravel runway at Akhiok Airport that is 3,320 feet long, plus a seaplane base at Moser Bay, and barge services are sporadic.

Akhiok is sometimes called Alitak, after the nearby bay, and it is served by postal code 99615, which is Kodiak's postal code.