Loring, Alaska

The Loring Saltery as it appeared ca. 1887, located near the Naha Rapids. The townsite of Loring is located behind it at the base of the mountain in the background. The side wheel steamer Ancon is in the upper left. It wrecked on Loring's beach in August 1889

Loring is located at 55°36′11″N 131°38′13″W, on the western shore of Revillagigedo Island, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Ketchikan as the crow flies. It is located on the northern shore of Naha Bay, an arm of Behm Canal.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.62 square miles (1.6 km²), of which 0.54 square miles (1.4 km²) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km²), or 12.27%, is water.[2]

Loring first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as an unincorporated fishing village and cannery.[4] It consisted of 200 residents, of which a majority (120) were native (presumably Tlingit), 51 were Asian (Chinese), 27 were white, and 2 were Creole (mixed native and Russian).[5] This population figure also included adjacent native fishing camps. It returned in 1900 with 168 residents, but the census did not provide a racial breakdown. Although the cannery and post office at Loring continued to operate until 1930 and 1936, respectively, it did not report on the census again from after 1900 until 110 years later, in 2010. It was made a census-designated place (CDP), with just 4 residents (2 of 2 or more races, 1 Native American & 1 White resident).[6]