Chignik Lake is a census-designated place in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. It is two hundred and sixty-five miles southwest of Kodiak. At the 2010 census the population was 73.Chignik Lake is located at 56°16′10″N 158°46′54″W / 56.269340°N 158.781714°W / 56.269340; -158.781714.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 21.9 square miles, of which, 12.3 square miles of it is land and 9.6 square miles of it is water.In 2009 the Marines of 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division, began work on an inter-village road system linking Chignik Lake to Chignik Lagoon. This is the first phase of potentially creating road links between Chignik Lake, Chignik Lagoon and Chignik.Chignik Lake first appeared on the 1960 U.S. Census. It was made a census-designated place in 1980.As of the census of 2000, there were 145 people, 40 households, and 34 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 11.8 people per square mile.