Editing Attu Station, Alaska

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{{Infobox settlement
 | official_name            = Attu Station, Alaska
 | settlement_type          = [[Census-designated place|CDP]]
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 | image_caption            = Attu Island with land area of {{convert|892.795|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
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 | subdivision_name2        = [[Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska|Aleutians West]]
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 | leader_title             = [[Alaska Senate|State senator]]
 | leader_name              = [[Lyman Hoffman]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alaskasenate.org/2020/member/lyman-hoffman/ |title=Senator Lyman Hoffman |publisher=Alaskasenate.org |website=Alaska Senate Majority |access-date=November 16, 2019 |archive-date=April 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408143501/https://www.alaskasenate.org/2020/member/lyman-hoffman/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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 | leader_name1             = [[Bryce Edgmon]] ([[Independent politician|I]])
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'''Attu''' is a [[census-designated place]] (CDP) located on [[Attu Island]] in the [[Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska|Aleutians West Census Area]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Alaska]]. The population was 21 at the [[2010 United States census|2010 census]],<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> consisting entirely of coast guard personnel who resided and worked at [[Casco Cove Coast Guard Station]], but left the island when the station was closed in August 2010, leaving it uninhabited. [[LORAN]] Station Attu had provided a navigational signal for mariners of the North Pacific since the 1970s.<ref name="GR2" /><ref name=attu>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040930031218/http://www.uscg.mil/d17/loranattu/ Home page for USCG Loran Station Attu] (modified July 23, 2007)</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://kucb.org/news/article/alaska-coast-guard-says-goodbye-to-its-last-loran-station/|title=Alaska Coast Guard says goodbye to its last LORAN station|publisher=Unalaska Community Broadcasting|work=KUCB News|date=August 27, 2010|access-date=March 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119015042/http://www.kucb.org/news/article/alaska-coast-guard-says-goodbye-to-its-last-loran-station|archive-date=November 19, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Although it is relatively the westernmost point in the United States, Attu Station is technically one of the easternmost points, located at {{coord|52|50|47|N|173|11|10|E|region:US-AK_type:city|display=inline,title}}, opposite the [[180th meridian]] from the rest of the [[United States]].

==History==
{{Unreferenced section|date=January 2025}}{{Main|Attu Island}}
After the Japanese invasion of [[Attu Island]] and the battle to retake it, the United States government constructed a [[LORAN]] station on the southern tip of the island, at Theodore Point. The equipment to build the station came from [[Holtz Bay]] and was ferried on barges and landing craft to Baxter Cove, about {{cvt|1|mile}} east of the station. Bulldozers were used to cut a road from Baxter Cove to Theodore Point.

In 1960, the station was moved to Casco Cove, near the former [[United States Navy]] base at [[Massacre Bay (Alaska)|Massacre Bay]]. Later, it was moved to Massacre Bay. LORAN Station Attu ceased transmission of the LORAN signal on February 8, 2010, and the Russian-American signal ceased on August 1, 2010.

In 2025, the [[U.S. Naval Institute]] proposed reviving the military airfield on Attu.<ref>{{Cite news|first= Hulse |last=Steve |authorlink=   |title= Bases on the Aleutian Islands Would Project U.S. Power Across the Pacific (Volume 151/1/1,463) |newspaper=[[U.S. Naval Institute]]|date= January 2025|url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2025/january/bases-aleutian-islands-would-project-us-power-across-pacific |via=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}</ref>

==Geography==
{{Unreferenced section|date=January 2025}}
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|143.6|sqmi|1}}, for which {{convert|142.6|sqmi|1}} of it is land and {{convert|1.1|sqmi|1}} of it (0.75%) is water.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1980= 28
|2000= 20
|2010= 21
|2020= 0
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
Attu (Naval) Station first appeared on the 1980 U.S. Census as "[[Attu, Alaska|Attu]]", a census-designated place (CDP).<ref>{{cite web |title=Characteristics of the Populations – Number of Inhabitants – Alaska |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_akABCD-01.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |date=May 1982}}</ref> It did not return on the 1990 census.<ref>{{cite web |title=1990 Census of Population and Housing – Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics – Alaska |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/cph5/cph-5-3.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223233331/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/cph5/cph-5-3.pdf |archive-date=February 23, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The name was changed to Attu Naval Station and redesignated a CDP in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-1-3.pdf |title=2000 Census of Population and Housing – Alaska |author=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=October 14, 2019 |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318011024/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/phc-1-3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> It appeared on the 2010 census with a population of 21<ref>{{cite web |author1=U.S. Census Bureau |title=2010 Census of Population and Housing – Alaska |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-1-3.pdf |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224134536/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-1-3.pdf |archive-date=February 24, 2014 |date=June 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> just before the closure of the station in August that year and the departure of its remaining residents.

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Attu Station CDP, Alaska – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Attu Station CDP, Alaska |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US0204670&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Attu Station CDP, Alaska |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US0204670&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Attu Station CDP, Alaska |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US0204670&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|15
|15
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|75.00%
|71.43%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|0
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|4.76%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|0
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|4.76%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|5
|4
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|25.00%
|19.05%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''20'''
|'''21'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''0'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

At the [[2000 United States census|2000 census]] there were 20 people, 0 households, and 0 families in the CDP. The population density was {{convert|0.1|PD/sqmi}}. There were 0 housing units at an average density of {{convert|0.0|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|units&nbsp;|units|}}. The [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census#2000 census|racial makeup]] of the CDP was 18 White, 1 from other races, and 1 from two or more races. Five of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.<ref name="GR2" /> The age distribution was 7 from 18 to 24, 12 from 25 to 44, and 1 from 45 to 64. The median age was 30 years. There were 19 men and one woman.

Males had a median income of $26,250, which is the same as for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $26,964. None of the population was below the poverty line.

As noted above, however, due to the closure of the station the community is presently uninhabited.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Alaska}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171230020429/https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/dcra/DCRAExternal/community/Details/4b91a12e-2baf-4e49-be41-2b21ddfe9dc5 Attu Station] at the Community Database Online from the [[Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development|Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs]]
* Maps from the [[Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200045/http://labor.alaska.gov/research/alari/images/maps/6_2_25map.pdf 2000], [https://web.archive.org/web/20151222091232/http://labor.alaska.gov/research/census/placemaps/04670.pdf 2010]

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[[Category:Census-designated places in Alaska]]
[[Category:Census-designated places in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska]]
[[Category:Census-designated places in Unorganized Borough, Alaska]]
[[Category:Populated coastal places in Alaska on the Pacific Ocean]]
[[Category:United States Coast Guard Aviation]]
[[Category:Road-inaccessible communities of Alaska]]
[[Category:Attu Island]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Alaska]]