North Slope Borough, Alaska

North Slope Borough
Borough
Point Barrow Refuge Station
Seal
Location within the U.S. state of Alaska
Alaska's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 69°18′N 153°27′W / 69.3°N 153.45°W / 69.3; -153.45
Country	United States
State	Alaska
Incorporated	July 2, 1972[1][2]
Named for	Alaska North Slope
Seat	Utqiaġvik
Largest city	Utqiaġvik
Government
• Mayor	Josiah Patkotak
Area
• Total	94,796 sq mi (245,520 km2)
• Land	88,695 sq mi (229,720 km2)
• Water	6,101 sq mi (15,800 km2)  6.4%
Population  (2020)
• Total	11,031
• Estimate  (2022)	10,805
• Density	0.12/sq mi (0.045/km2)
Time zone	UTC−9 (Alaska)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−8 (ADT)
Congressional district	At-large
Website	www.north-slope.org

The North Slope Borough is the northernmost borough in the US state of Alaska and thus, the northernmost county or equivalent of the United States as a whole. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,031.^[3] The borough seat and largest city, comprising nearly 1/2 of the borough’s population, is Utqiaġvik (known as Barrow from 1901 to 2016), the northernmost settlement in the United States.