Waterfall, Alaska

{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Alaska, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}

{{other uses|Waterfall (disambiguation)}}

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|official_name = Waterfall, Alaska

|settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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|image_skyline = File:View of village of Waterfall, ca 1910 (THWAITES 356).jpeg

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|image_caption = Waterfall in 1910

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|map_caption = Location of Waterfall, Alaska

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|subdivision_type = Country

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|subdivision_type1 = State

|subdivision_name1 = Alaska

|subdivision_type2 = Borough

|subdivision_name2 = Unorganized{{Cite web

| title=Alaska Statutes - Title 29 Chapter 03. The Unorganized Borough

| publisher=Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development

| url=http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/logon/pubs/29_03.htm

| access-date=July 15, 2008

| archive-date=June 9, 2009

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609120846/http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/logon/pubs/29_03.htm

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}}{{Cite web

| title=Legislative Directive for Unorganized Borough Review

| publisher=Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development

| url=http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/lbc/boroughstudy/home.htm

}}

|subdivision_type3 = Census area {{Cref|B}}

|subdivision_name3 = Prince of Wales-Hyder {{Cref|B}}

|subdivision_type4 = Township

|subdivision_name4 = T S R E Copper River Meridian

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|leader_title = State senator

|leader_name = Bert Stedman (R)

|leader_title1 = State rep.

|leader_name1 = Dan Ortiz (I)

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|timezone = Alaska (AKST)

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|area_code = 907

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}} Waterfall is an unincorporated community on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States, approximately {{Convert|60|miles}} west of Ketchikan. The primary industry was Waterfall Cannery, built in 1912 as a salmon processing facility. The cannery closed in 1973 and was renovated into the Waterfall Resort, a sport fishing lodge.

Waterfall is not connected to the island's road system; visitors to the resort arrive by floatplane from Ketchikan.