Auke Bay, Juneau
{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Auke Bay
|native_name = Áakʼw Tá
|settlement_type = Neighborhood
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|image_skyline = File:Juneau Auke Bay Aerial 0595.jpg
|image_caption = Aerial view shows Auke Bay (including the harbor and Auke Lake) in the foreground. The Mendenhall Peninsula extends to the right behind the community. The lower Mendenhall Valley, Juneau International Airport and Douglas Island are in the background.
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|pushpin_map = Alaska
|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Alaska
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = United States
|subdivision_type1 = State
|subdivision_name1 = Alaska
|subdivision_type2 = Borough
|subdivision_name2 = City and Borough of Juneau
|timezone = Alaska (AKST)
|utc_offset = -9
|timezone_DST = AKDT
|utc_offset_DST = -8
|elevation_footnotes =
|elevation_m = 3
|elevation_ft = 10
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|postal_code_type = ZIP code
|postal_code = 99801
|area_code_type = Area code
|area_code = 907
|blank_name = FIPS code
|blank_info = 02-04760
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Auke Bay ({{langx|tli|Áakʼw Tá}}) is a neighborhood located in the city and borough of Juneau, Alaska, that contains Auke Bay Harbor, Auke Lake, the University of Alaska Southeast, an elementary school, a church, a post office, a bar, a coffee shop, a waffle house, a thrift shop, a Thai restaurant, and one convenience store.
The view of the Mendenhall Glacier behind Auke Bay and Mount McGinnis towering over Auke Lake are some of the most popular photo opportunities in Juneau. The ferry terminal of the Alaska Marine Highway system is also located further out the road in Auke Bay at about 14 miles.
The [https://www.facebook.com/AukeLakeFlamingos/ flamingo house] on Auke Lake is a local attraction, known for its topical or weather-related formations of pink lawn flamingos. Whale watchings targeting curious humpbacks are available. Humpbacks in these areas are known to demonstrate special feeding methods, so-called "bubble-net feeding", and come very close to shores.
The Coast Guard cutter Liberty was homeported at the Auke Bay Harbor for 33 years, before being reassigned to Valdez, Alaska in 2022.{{Cite news |last=Segall |first=Peter |date=May 26, 2022 |title=After 33 years in Juneau, Coast Guard cutter gets a new home |work=Juneau Empire |url=https://www.juneauempire.com/news/after-33-years-in-juneau-coast-guard-cutter-gets-a-new-home/}}
Auke Bay takes its name from the native Auke people, a part of the Tlingit tribe.{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of Alaska Place Names|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0y48AQAAMAAJ|last=Orth|first=Donald|publisher=US Government Printing Office|year=1967|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0y48AQAAMAAJ/page/n106 94]}}
Climate
Auke Bay has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb)
{{Weather box
|location = Auke Bay, Alaska (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1963–present)
|single line = Y
| Jan record high F = 58
| Feb record high F = 58
| Mar record high F = 60
| Apr record high F = 71
| May record high F = 79
| Jun record high F = 85
| Jul record high F = 89
| Aug record high F = 83
| Sep record high F = 73
| Oct record high F = 63
| Nov record high F = 56
| Dec record high F = 55
| year record high F = 89
| Jan avg record high F = 45.2
| Feb avg record high F = 45.0
| Mar avg record high F = 49.6
| Apr avg record high F = 61.5
| May avg record high F = 71.4
| Jun avg record high F = 77.3
| Jul avg record high F = 76.9
| Aug avg record high F = 75.7
| Sep avg record high F = 65.8
| Oct avg record high F = 56.6
| Nov avg record high F = 46.7
| Dec avg record high F = 44.2
| year avg record high F = 79.9
| Jan high F = 31.3
| Feb high F = 34.7
| Mar high F = 38.9
| Apr high F = 48.5
| May high F = 57.4
| Jun high F = 62.7
| Jul high F = 63.6
| Aug high F = 62.5
| Sep high F = 55.4
| Oct high F = 46.2
| Nov high F = 36.8
| Dec high F = 32.8
| year high F = 47.6
| Jan mean F =28.2
| Feb mean F =30.4
| Mar mean F =33.3
| Apr mean F =41.4
| May mean F =49.8
| Jun mean F =55.6
| Jul mean F =57.5
| Aug mean F =56.6
| Sep mean F =50.6
| Oct mean F =42.5
| Nov mean F =33.8
| Dec mean F =30.1
| year mean F =42.5
| Jan low F = 25.1
| Feb low F = 26.1
| Mar low F = 27.8
| Apr low F = 34.3
| May low F = 42.2
| Jun low F = 48.4
| Jul low F = 51.4
| Aug low F = 50.8
| Sep low F = 45.8
| Oct low F = 38.8
| Nov low F = 30.9
| Dec low F = 27.3
| year low F = 37.4
| Jan avg record low F = 7.6
| Feb avg record low F = 11.7
| Mar avg record low F = 13.6
| Apr avg record low F = 25.4
| May avg record low F = 33.6
| Jun avg record low F = 41.5
| Jul avg record low F = 46.4
| Aug avg record low F = 44.7
| Sep avg record low F = 37.2
| Oct avg record low F = 28.9
| Nov avg record low F = 18.4
| Dec avg record low F = 12.3
| year avg record low F = 1.5
| Jan record low F = -12
| Feb record low F = -15
| Mar record low F = -8
| Apr record low F = 12
| May record low F = 27
| Jun record low F = 32
| Jul record low F = 38
| Aug record low F = 37
| Sep record low F = 27
| Oct record low F = 13
| Nov record low F = -4
| Dec record low F = -14
| year record low F = -15
| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation inch = 5.23
| Feb precipitation inch = 3.58
| Mar precipitation inch = 3.10
| Apr precipitation inch = 3.07
| May precipitation inch = 3.60
| Jun precipitation inch = 4.34
| Jul precipitation inch = 5.87
| Aug precipitation inch = 7.10
| Sep precipitation inch = 9.91
| Oct precipitation inch = 7.91
| Nov precipitation inch = 5.85
| Dec precipitation inch = 5.51
| year precipitation inch = 65.07
| unit precipitation days = 0.01 in
| Jan precipitation days = 21.0
| Feb precipitation days = 17.2
| Mar precipitation days = 17.1
| Apr precipitation days = 17.4
| May precipitation days = 16.0
| Jun precipitation days = 17.1
| Jul precipitation days = 19.0
| Aug precipitation days = 20.0
| Sep precipitation days = 23.4
| Oct precipitation days = 24.6
| Nov precipitation days = 22.2
| Dec precipitation days = 21.4
| Jan snow inch = 24.0
| Feb snow inch = 14.8
| Mar snow inch = 10.1
| Apr snow inch = 1.2
| May snow inch = 0.0
| Jun snow inch = 0.0
| Jul snow inch = 0.0
| Aug snow inch = 0.0
| Sep snow inch = 0.0
| Oct snow inch = 0.8
| Nov snow inch = 11.5
| Dec snow inch = 18.3
| year snow inch = 80.7
| unit snow days = 0.1 in
| Jan snow days =10.3
| Feb snow days =7.5
| Mar snow days =6.2
| Apr snow days =1.0
| May snow days =0.0
| Jun snow days =0.0
| Jul snow days =0.0
| Aug snow days =0.0
| Sep snow days =0.0
| Oct snow days =0.5
| Nov snow days =5.5
| Dec snow days =9.3
| year snow days =
|source 1 = NOAA{{cite web
|url=https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=ajk |title=Auke Bay, AK - NOWData Juneau|accessdate=April 21, 2021}}
{{cite web
|url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00500464&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|title = U.S. Climate Normals Quick Access – Station: Auke Bay, AK
|access-date = February 15, 2023
}}
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Public Safety
Fire and EMS coverage is provided by Capital City Fire Rescue. Originally, the Auke Bay Volunteer Fire Department provided services beginning in 1952 under the guiding principal of "neighbors helping neighbors." In 1992, Auke Bay VFD merged along with five other fire departments to become Capital City Fire & Rescue, which serves the majority of the Juneau area. The Auke Bay Fire Station is covered by volunteer firefighters. At night, the station is staffed by "Live-In" Resident Volunteer Firefighters, who are allowed to reside in the station rent-free in exchange for staffing emergency vehicles a required amount of time per month.
Law enforcement is provided primarily by Juneau Police Department, who are supported by the Alaska State Troopers and U.S. Forest Service law enforcement.
The United States Coast Guard Cutter Reef Shark, a Marine-Protector Class Patrol Boat, is homeported out of Auke Bay / Statter Harbor. The cutter's primary mission set includes law enforcement, search and rescue, military operations, and environmental protection. During the summer months, USCG Small Boat Station Juneau maintains a 45' Motor Lifeboat at Reef Shark's moorings, providing a faster search and rescue asset as well as law enforcement capability to the immediate harbor area.
Demographics
{{US Census population|align=left
|1880= 640
|1890= 324
|1900= 261
|1910= 218
|1950= 295
|1970= 490
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 6, 2013}}
}}
Auke Bay first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as three separate and unnamed "Auk Villages" with a combined total of 640 Auke Tlingit.{{cite web |title=Statistics of the Population of Alaska |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1880a_v1-17.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |date=1880}} These settlements extended beyond the present-day area near Juneau to include Admiralty Island and Douglas Island. In 1890, these were consolidated by the census and reported as "Auk Settlements."{{cite web |title=Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890 |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v8-01.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |publisher=Government Printing Office}} It returned simply as "Auke" in 1900{{cite web |title=Statistics of Population - Populations of States and Territories by Minor Civil Divisions: 1890 and 1900 |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/33405927v1ch07.pdf |page=426 |date=1900}} and 1910.{{cite web |title=Supplement for Alaska - Population, Agriculture, Manufactures, Mines, and Quarries |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41033927n358-359ch10.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |date=1910}} It did not report again separately until 1950, by which time it was a suburb of Juneau.{{cite web |title=Number of Inhabitants - Alaska |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41601749v2p51-54ch2.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |date=1950}} It did not appear in 1960, but returned in 1970, just before all locales within Juneau Borough were consolidated into the city of Juneau.{{cite web |author1=Bureau of the Census |title=1970 Census of Population - Characteristics of the Population - Alaska |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1970a_ak-01.pdf |date=January 1973}}
Alaska Clipper Stop
For several months in 1940, Auke Bay was a stop for Pan American Airways "Alaska Clipper".{{Cite web|url=http://www.juneau.org/airport/documents/JuneauAirportHistory12-13-16Alt.pdf|title=Juneau Airport History|website=City and Borough of Juneau}} The Alaska Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B four-engine flying boat. The aircraft was originally named "Bermuda Clipper" and served the Baltimore - Bermuda route. In 1940 it was renamed Alaska Clipper and flew from Matthews Beach on Lake Washington in Seattle to Auke Bay stopping in Ketchikan.{{Cite news|url=http://www.historylink.org/File/2247|title=Pioneering Pan American Airways Clipper Service to Alaska departs from Sand Point on August 7, 1938.|access-date=2018-06-30}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sitnews.us/Kiffer/PanAm/122906_Pan_Am_Airways.html|title=Pan Am: Once Ketchikan's Link to the Outside World |date=December 29, 2006 |last=Kiffer |first=Dave|website=www.sitnews.us|access-date=2018-06-30}} The first flight landed in Auke Bay on June 14, 1940{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/10776431/?terms=%22Alaska%2BClipper%22|title=Alaska Clipper Lands at Auk Bay, Completing First Flight From Seattle|date=June 18, 1940|work=The Alaska Miner}} and the last took place on November 6, 1940.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/10789030/?terms=%22Alaska%2BClipper%22|title=Douglas DC3 to Replace Alaska Clipper on Run From Seattle to Juneau|date=November 5, 1940|work=The Alaska Miner}} After its Alaska service, the plane was renamed again, this time "Hong Kong Clipper II", and began service on the Hong Kong - Manila route. The aircraft was destroyed by Japanese bombing in Hong Kong Harbor on December 8, 1941.{{Cite web|url=http://www.flyingclippers.com/panam.html|title=Pan American Clippers 1931 - 1946 @ flyingclippers.com|last=FlyingClippers.com|website=www.flyingclippers.com|access-date=2018-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327132657/http://www.flyingclippers.com/panam.html|archive-date=2010-03-27|url-status=dead}}
Auke Bay Marine Station
For forty-seven years, Auke Bay was the home of Auke Bay Laboratories,{{Cite web|url=https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/auke-bay-laboratories|title=Auke Bay Laboratories {{!}} NOAA Fisheries|last=Fisheries|first=NOAA|date=2018-06-28|website=www.fisheries.noaa.gov|language=EN-US|access-date=2018-07-02}} the primary US Government facility researching commercially important fisheries in Alaska. Its studies included estimates of abundance of salmon, sablefish, crabs, and other commercial stocks, and the impact of fishing, development, and industry on those stocks and the habitat on which they rely.
The original Auke Bay Marine Station was funded by Congress in 1958–1959 and opened in 1960.{{Cite web|url=https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/History/facilities/aukebaylab.htm|title=AFSC Historical Corner: Auke Bay Laboratory|date=5 April 2023 }} The 4-acre facility was declared surplus by the US Government in 2016, after the Auke Bay Laboratories’ headquarters was moved to the new Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute in 2007.{{Cite news|url=http://juneauempire.com/local/2016-05-06/noaas-auke-bay-station-surplus|title=NOAA's Auke Bay Station up for surplus|last=DeGrave|first=Sam|date=May 6, 2016|work=Juneau Empire|access-date=2018-07-02|language=en}} In 2017, an agreement was reached whereby the Federal Government would give part of the property to the University of Alaska – Southeast to support its marine biology program, and part of it to the Juneau Docks and Harbors Division to allow for the expansion of its Statter Harbor facilities in Auke Bay.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ktoo.org/2017/08/21/agreement-reached-former-auke-bay-marine-station/|title=Agreement reached over former Auke Bay Marine Station|last=KTOO|first=Jacob Resneck|date=2017-08-21|work=KTOO|access-date=2018-07-02|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Auke Bay}}
{{Portal|Alaska}}
- [https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/dcra/DCRAExternal/community/Details/d669aac4-9097-4d67-bc50-789caf4a8432 Auke Bay] at the Community Database Online from the Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs
- http://abes.juneauschools.org
- http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/abl
- http://seniortravel.about.com/od/Alaska/ss/auke-bay-alaska-whale-watching.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413150301/http://seniortravel.about.com/od/Alaska/ss/auke-bay-alaska-whale-watching.htm |date=2014-04-13 }}
- https://www.aukebay.org/
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