Кусилвак халық санау ауданы

Census area in Alaska, United States

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 therefore has no borough seat. Its largest community is the city of Hooper Bay, on the Bering Sea coast. The census area's per capita income makes it the fourth poorest county equivalent in the United States. In 2014, it had the highest percentage of unemployed people of any county or census area in the United States, at 23.7 percent.

The census area was originally named for Wade Hampton III, a South Carolina politician whose son in law, John Randolph Tucker, a territorial judge in Nome, posthumously named a mining district in western Alaska for him in 1913. The district eventually became the census area, retaining its name. Over the next century, the name became increasingly controversial, with Native residents and others arguing Hampton's name did not represent Alaska and that his personal history as a slave holding Civil War general was a blemish on the region. In July 2015, Alaska Governor Bill Walker formally notified the U. S. Census Bureau that the census area was being renamed after the Kusilvak Mountains, its highest range.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the census area has a total area of 19673 square miles (50,953 km2), of which 17081 square miles (44,240 km2) is land and 2592 square miles (6,713 km2) (13.2%) is water.

+ Races (alone or in combination with other) in Kusilvak Census Area (2020 United States Census) Race Percentage of Population White 3.84% Black or African American 0.65% American Indian or Alaska Native 96.93% Asian 0.55% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.29% Some other race 0.42%