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Sand Point, also known as Popof Island, is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 976, up from 952 in 2000, but by the 2020 Census this had reduced to 578. It is on northwestern Popof Island, one of the Shumagin Islands, off the Alaska Peninsula. It is the borough seat of Aleutians East Borough, and is near the entrance to the Bering Sea.

The Aleutians East Borough School District is in Southwestern Alaska along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Chain The District was formed in 1988 from smaller districts that consolidated and formed a Borough with taxing authority. The Borough and District boundaries are the same, and stretch over approximately 15,000 square miles (39,000 km) of roadless, mostly treeless tundra, from the middle of the Alaska Peninsula to the north and east, going southwest out to Akutan just east of Dutch Harbor.

Sand Point city overview:
Name:	Sand Point city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Alaska
County:	Aleutians East Borough
Incorporated:	September 1, 1966
Elevation:	39 ft (12 m)
Total Area:	30.29 sq mi (78.46 km²)
Land Area:	8.01 sq mi (20.75 km²)
Water Area:	22.28 sq mi (57.71 km²)
Total Population:	578
Population Density:	72.16/sq mi (27.86/km²)
ZIP code:	99661
Area code:	907
FIPS code:	0267020
GNISfeature ID:	1419182
Website:	sandpointak.com

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History

Sand Point was founded by a San Francisco fishing company in 1898 as a cod fishing station and trading post. Aleuts and Scandinavians were among the early residents. Gold mining was briefly a part of the economy during the early 1900s. Fishing remains an important industry, as Sand Point is home to one of the largest fishing fleets in the Aleutian Chain.

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Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.9 square miles (75 km), of which, 7.8 square miles (20 km) of it is land and 21.1 square miles (55 km) of it (73.05%) is water.