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Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
17historic places
—earliest paper
1960formed
13,948pop. 2020
1cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Ketchikan, Saxman, Knudson Cove.

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 Ketchikan Gateway titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Alaska TotemsKetchikanSite1971
Burkhart-Dibrell HouseKetchikanBuilding1982
Chief Kashakes HouseSaxmanBuilding1993
Clover Pass SchoolKnudson CoveBuilding2005
Creek Street Historic DistrictKetchikanDistrict2014
Downtown Ketchikan Historic DistrictKetchikanDistrict2017
First Lutheran ChurchKetchikanBuilding1987
Gilmore BuildingKetchikanBuilding1989
Guard Island LighthouseKetchikanDistrict2004
Ketchikan Federal BuildingKetchikanBuilding2006
Ketchikan Ranger HouseKetchikanBuilding1987
Saxman Totem ParkSaxmanDistrict1979
Stedman-Thomas Historic DistrictKetchikanDistrict1996
The StarKetchikanBuilding1993
Totem Bight State Historic SiteKetchikanBuilding1970
Walker-Broderick HouseKetchikanBuilding1982
Ziegler HouseKetchikanBuilding1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

1960 census. Ketchikan (Election District 2) served as a census area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ketchikan Gateway Borough population from 1960 to 2020 (Census historical series).

14k12k10k1960199020002020
1960198020002020
10,07011,31614,07013,948

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

1 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed
NameLatLon
Bayview Cemetery55.33506-131.62591
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Kah Shakes55.04167-130.975
Yes Bay55.90972-131.8

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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