Valdez, Alaska has a population of around 4,000 ... Riker was born in Valdez on August 19, 2335, and the town's citizens think that's something to celebrate. We can't say we disagree with them.

As for smaller towns, the snowiest is Valdez, Alaska, (pop. roughly 4,000), according to National Weather Service data. Valdez picks up an almost unimaginable 23 feet of snow each year.

View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline terminus, with Robe lake in the foreground the Lowe river dumps its burden of silty rock flour into port Valdez ...