to deal with the large number of summer tourists each year. Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007, it was previously a city (urban Skagway located at ) in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area (now the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska). The most populated community is the census-designated place of Skagway.

Skagway, on the Taiya Inlet, was an important saltwater port