Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Hoonah, AK

Hoonah (Tlingit: Xunaa or Gaaw Yat'aḵ Aan) is a largely Tlingit first-class city on Chichagof Island in Alaska's panhandle, in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area.

The 2020 census counted 931 residents, up from 760 in 2010, and in summer the population can swell to over 1,300 with fishing, boating, hiking and hunting visitors.

Hoonah is the only first-class city on Chichagof Island, the fifth-largest island in the United States and the 109th-largest island in the world.

Xunaa was settled in the 1750s by clans fleeing a glacial advance in Glacier Bay, where the Huna Tlingit originally lived.

The name "Hoonah" became the official spelling in 1901 with the establishment of the Hoonah branch of the United States Post Office.

The city incorporated on June 8, 1946.

In 1944 a fire destroyed much of Hoonah, including many priceless Tlingit cultural objects, and the federal government helped rebuild the town.

The Hoonah Indian Association was constituted as a federally recognized tribe in 1934 and 1936, authorized to act on behalf of the Huna Tlingit.

Hoonah is about 40 air miles west of Juneau, across the Inside Passage, and its ZIP code is 99829.

In 2023 the city petitioned the Alaska Local Boundary Commission to create Xunaa Borough, which would be Alaska's 20th organized borough, and dissolve the city into it.