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The Swan Lake Fire was a large lightning-caused wildfire that burnt between Sterling and Cooper Landing on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska from June 5, 2019, until the autumn of that year. [2] In total, the fire burned approximately 170,000 acres (69,000 hectares).
[6] [7] The exact number of buildings destroyed may never be known as the Caribou Hills area is a popular destination for snowmachine enthusiasts in the winter, and many small overnight cabins had been built over the years without permits or other documentation. On June 5, 2019, a lightning strike cause a new fire in the footprint of the 2007 fire.
Kenai Peninsula Borough is a borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census , the population was 58,799, up from 55,400 in 2010. [ 3 ] The borough seat is Soldotna , [ 4 ] the largest city is Kenai , and the most populated community is the census-designated place of Kalifornsky .
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The Shanta Creek Wildfire was a lightning caused forest fire that started on June 29, 2009, in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. More than 13,000 acres (53 km 2; 20 sq mi) were burned and over 400 personnel were involved in the firefighting effort. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Kenai (/ ˈ k iː n aɪ /, KEE-ny) (Dena'ina: Shk'ituk't; Russian: Кенай, Kenay) is a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. [5] [6] By road, it is 158 miles southwest of Anchorage. The population was 7,424 as of the 2020 census, up from 7,100 in 2010, [7] the fifteenth-most populated city in the state.
The Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility is expected to burn 440,000 tons of waste this year, nearly 100,000 more than usual. (Octavio Jones for NBC News)