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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. The borough seat is Soldotna,the largest city is Kenai,and the most populated community is the census-designated place of Kalifornsky.
Kenai is a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. 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,the fifteenth-most populated city in the state.
Seward is an incorporated home rule city in Alaska,United States. Located on Resurrection Bay,a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula,Seward is situated on Alaska's southern coast,approximately 120 miles (190 km) by road from Alaska's largest city,Anchorage.
Soldotna is a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2020 census,the population was 4,342,up from 4,163 in 2010. It is the seat of the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
The Kenai Peninsula is a large peninsula jutting from the coast of Southcentral Alaska. The name Kenai is derived from the word "Kenaitze" or "Kenaitze Indian Tribe",the name of the Native Athabascan Alaskan tribe,the Kahtnuht’ana Dena’ina,who historically inhabited the area. They called the Kenai Peninsula Yaghanen.
Cook Inlet stretches 180 miles (290 km) from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end,almost surrounding Anchorage. On its southern end,it merges with Shelikof Strait,Stevenson Entrance,Kennedy Entrance and Chugach Passage.
Peter Kalifornsky was a writer and ethnographer of the Dena'ina Athabaskan of Kenai,Alaska.
Kenai Fjords National Park is an American national park that comprises the Harding Icefield,its outflowing glaciers,and coastal fjords and islands. The park covers an area of 669,984 acres on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska,west of the town of Seward.
The Kenai River called Kahtnu in the Dena'ina language,is the longest river in the Kenai Peninsula of southcentral Alaska. It runs 82 miles (132 km) westward from Kenai Lake in the Kenai Mountains,through the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and Skilak Lake to its outlet into the Cook Inlet of the Pacific Ocean near Kenai and Soldotna.
Kenai Municipal Airport is a city-owned,public-use airport located in Kenai,a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kenai Peninsula Borough,Alaska.
Swetman House,also known as Swetmann House and Gerhard "Stucco" Johnson House,is a historic residence at 325 5th Avenue in Seward,Alaska. The house was constructed in 1916 and was originally located adjacent to Seward's Mount Marathon. In 1920 or 1921,the original owner,Gerhard "Stucco" Johnson,sold the house to pharmacist Elwyn Swetman on condition that Swetman move the property to his own lot. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 17,1978.
The 2016 Old Iliamna earthquake struck in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska near Iliamna at 1:30 AM AKST on January 24,2016. The quake was centered approximately 162 miles (261 km) from Anchorage,and 65 miles (105 km) from Homer. The earthquake registered 7.1,and was felt across a wide area of Southcentral Alaska,the Kenai Peninsula and as far away as Juneau roughly 700 miles (1,100 km) southeast of the epicenter. Moderate to heavy damage to homes,roads and businesses was experienced over a wide area.
Kelly J. Wolf is an American politician from the state of Alaska. He served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 2003 until 2005.
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