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Chugach Census Area, Alaska

Use the public county JSON as a small, reproducible input for a coding mission. A useful example is validating FIPS codes, grouping rows by state and producing a documented report that another person can run.

County FIPS02063Five-digit Census identifier
Population6,553July 1, 2025 estimate
Land area9,574.35 mi²2025 Gazetteer
Population per land mi²0.68Calculated from the cited population and land area

Identify the right place

Chugach Census Area is a county or county equivalent in Alaska. Its five-digit FIPS code is 02063; preserve the leading zero when storing county codes as text. The Gazetteer lists 5,613.54 square miles of water and a representative point at 60.488474, -146.20309. That point identifies the geography; it is not a street address or a site boundary.

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County data workflow reference checklist

  1. Specify the input columns, expected output and handling of missing data.
  2. Keep the mission limited to the approved public dataset.
  3. Inspect returned source, tests and execution receipts before reusing the result.

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Sources and interpretation

Geography: 2025 U.S. Census Gazetteer. Population: Vintage 2025 estimates, July 1, 2025. County equivalents include parishes, boroughs, independent cities and planning regions. Puerto Rico population is not supplied by this population file.

Population is an estimate, not a live count. Gazetteer land and water measures describe the geographic area; they do not measure service availability, households, businesses or market demand. Match the FIPS code and source vintage when joining another dataset.

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