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The United States Coast Guard maintains a large shore installation, Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, south of the downtown area, which serves as a homeport to three cutters and as a regional maintenance base for Alaska. One of Ketchikan's two zip codes, 99950, is the highest-numbered in the United States. [25]
At statehood in 1959, title to the land passed from the federal government to the State of Alaska. The historic site, comprising 8.5 acres (3.4 ha) of the park, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 27, 1970.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ketchikan Gateway 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.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census its population was 13,948, up from 13,477 in 2010. [2] The borough seat is Ketchikan. [3] The borough is the second most populous borough in Southeast Alaska, the first being Juneau Borough.
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The Downtown Ketchikan Historic District in Ketchikan, Alaska was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The listing was put out for comments in the Federal Register in 2016.
Ketchikan, with a population of about 14,000, is nestled along the southern portion of Alaska’s Inside Passage – a water route famed for its stunning landscapes, fjords and glaciers. The city ...
It extends along Stedman and Thomas Streets, from Ketchikan Creek in the north to East Street in the south, and includes a few properties on adjacent spur side streets. In the early days of the city, the area was a seasonal Native fishing camp just south of the creek, but the Alaskan gold rushes around the turn of the 20th century brought an ...