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Anchorage Municipality, Alaska

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35historic places

—earliest paper

1960formed

291,247pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 35 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Anchorage, Eklutna, Girdwood.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Alaska is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Anchorage titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

23 of 35 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

35 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
A. E. C. Cottage No. 23	Anchorage	Building	1990
Alaska Engineering Commission Cottage No. 25	Anchorage	Building	1996
Alex, Mike, Cabin	Eklutna	Building	1982
Anchorage Cemetery	Anchorage	District	1993
Anchorage City Hall	Anchorage	Building	1980
Anchorage Depot	Anchorage	Building	1999
Anchorage Hotel Annex	Anchorage	Building	1999
Anderson, Oscar, House	Anchorage	Building	1978
Beluga Point Site	Anchorage	Site	1978
Block 13 Army Housing Association Historic District	Anchorage	District	2018
Campus Center	Anchorage	Building	1979
Civil Works Residential Dwellings	Anchorage	Building	2004
Crow Creek Consolidated Gold Mining Company	Girdwood	Building	1978
David, Leopold, House	Anchorage	Building	1986
Eklutna Power Plant	Anchorage	Building	1980
Federal Building-U.S. Courthouse	Anchorage	Building	1978
Fort Richardson National Cemetery	Fort Richardson	District	2012
Fourth Avenue Theatre (AHRS Site No. ANC-284)	Anchorage	Building	1982
Gill, Oscar, House	Anchorage	Building	2001
Government Hill Federal Housing Historic District	Anchorage	District	2015
Greater Friendship Baptist Church	Anchorage	Building	2019
Indian Valley Mine	Indian	District	1989
KENI Radio Building	Anchorage	Building	1988
Kimball's Store	Anchorage	Building	1986
Kulis Hangar 1, Building 3	Anchorage	Building	2019
Loussac-Sogn Building	Anchorage	Building	1998
McKinley Tower Apartments	Anchorage	Building	2008
Mt. Alyeska Roundhouse	Girdwood	Building	2003
Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church	Eklutna	Building	1972
Pioneer School House	Anchorage	Building	1980
Potter Section House	Anchorage	Building	1985
Site Summit	Anchorage	District	1996
Spring Creek Lodge	Chugiak	Building	2001
Wendler Building	Anchorage	Building	1988
Wireless Station, The	Anchorage	Building	2015

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Anchorage was formed in 1960 (1960-04-01) from unknown / original county.

1960 census. Anchorage (Election District 10) served as a census area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Anchorage Municipality population from 1960 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1960	1980	2000	2020
82,833	174,431	260,283	291,247

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
ANCH	Park unit	33.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

5 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery	61.21511	-149.87601
Angelus Memorial Park	61.11404	-149.87154
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery	61.11472	-149.86889
Fort Richardson National Cemetery	61.27559	-149.65964
Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church Cemetery	61.46101	-149.36196

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Zdluiat	61.32369	-149.78466

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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