Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Klawock, AK

Klawock (Tlingit: Lawáak) is a city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, on Klawock Inlet across from Klawock Island.

At the 2020 census Klawock had 720 residents, down from 755 in 2010, living in 281 households.

Klawock's first settlers were Tlingit who came from the northern winter village of Tuxekan and used the site as a summer fishing camp; the name comes from the Tlingit name Lawá, the man who founded the community.

In 1868 European Americans opened a trading post and salmon saltery, and in 1878 a San Francisco firm opened the first salmon cannery in Alaska, giving Klawock its nickname, 'Site of the First Salmon Cannery in Alaska.'

A United States post office was established in Klawock in 1882, and the town incorporated as a city on October 29, 1929.

In 1912 residents founded the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood, civil rights organizations, and in 1939 their volunteers built the Town Hall and a community center during the Great Depression.

Klawock is the headquarters of the Klawock Cooperative Association, a federally recognized tribe of Tlingit Native Americans.

Klawock has the oldest fish hatchery in Alaska, which enhances runs of sockeye, coho, and steelhead salmon.

Totem Park in Klawock has 21 totem poles, one of the largest collections in Alaska, displaying original and replica totems from the old village of Tuxekan.

Each February 16, the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood sponsor the Elizabeth Peratrovich Celebration honoring the 1945 passage of Alaska's anti-discrimination legislation, and the city also sponsors a summer festival, the 'Celebration by the Sea.'