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Skagway Municipality, Alaska

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

0historic places

—earliest paper

—formed

—pop. 2020

1cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

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 Skagway titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

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.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park	Park unit	3.8 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

1 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Gold Rush Cemetery	59.47381	-135.28915

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Canyon City	59.61417	-135.33056
Denver	59.50083	-135.22833
Rocky Point	59.50667	-135.24778

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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