Ketchikan Gateway Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,477. The borough seat is Ketchikan. The borough is the second most populous borough in Southeast Alaska, the first being Juneau Borough.
Ketchikan is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough of Alaska. It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic District. With a population at the 2010 census of 8,050, it is the fifth-most populous city in the state, and tenth-most populous community when census-designated places are included. The surrounding borough, encompassing suburbs both north and south of the city along the Tongass Highway, plus small rural settlements accessible mostly by water, registered a population of 13,477 in that same census. US Census results put the 2019 population at 13,901 people. Incorporated on August 25, 1900, Ketchikan is the earliest extant incorporated city in Alaska, because consolidation or unification elsewhere in Alaska resulted in the dissolution of those communities' city governments. Ketchikan is located on Revillagigedo Island, so named in 1793 by Captain George Vancouver.
Revillagigedo Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Ketchikan Gateway Borough of the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska. Running about 89 km (50 mi) north-south and 48 km (35 mi) east-west, it is 2,754.835 km² (1,063.65 mi²) in area, making it the 12th largest island in the United States and the 167th largest island in the world. Its center is located near 55°38′03″N131°17′51″W.
KFQD is a commercial AM radio station in Anchorage, Alaska known as "News Talk 750 and 103.7 KFQD." It broadcasts a News/Talk radio format and is owned by Alpha Media LLC. The studios and offices are on Artic Slope Avenue in Anchorage.
KBRJ is a commercial country music radio station in Anchorage, Alaska, broadcasting on 104.1 FM. Owned by Alpha Media LLC, its studios are located in Anchorage, and its transmitter is in the Bayshore neighborhood in South Anchorage.
KATB is a radio station broadcasting a religious radio format. Licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, United States, it serves the Anchorage area. The station is currently owned by Christian Broadcasting, Inc.
KTOO is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Juneau, Alaska, United States. The station is owned by KTOO Public Media. It is the radio sister to KTOO-TV, a PBS satellite member station of KAKM.
KABN-FM was a non-commercial College radio station in Kasilof, Alaska, broadcasting to the Kenai, Alaska, area on 89.5 FM.
KFMJ is a full service, commercial, classic hits music radio station in Ketchikan, Alaska, broadcasting on 99.9 MHz FM, is owned by Steven Rhyner through licensee KFMJ Radio LLC. and was launched on August 2, 1996. One of two commercial broadcast FM stations licensed to broadcast from Ketchikan, KFMJ is the only locally owned commercial radio station.
KRBD is a non-commercial radio station in Ketchikan, Alaska, broadcasting on 105.3 FM. The station airs public radio programming from the National Public Radio network, the BBC World Service, and is a member of CoastAlaska. KRBD also airs some locally originated programming.
KTKN is an American commercial radio station airing talk and hot adult contemporary music programming in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Alaska Broadcast Communications is a local radio broadcasting company, serving the entire southeastern area of Alaska. The main office, along with the Juneau studios, is located at the Juneau Radio Center, located at 3161 Channel Drive in Juneau, Alaska.
Located in Ketchikan, Alaska, the Tongass School of Arts and Sciences is a creative school. It has its own preschool and is available to grades K-6.
Loring was established in 1885 with the first post office in the District of Alaska and is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 4 at the 2010 census, although the number increases in summer months.
Pennock Island is located in the U.S. state of Alaska near the city of Ketchikan. The island is situated within the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and is part of the Alexander Archipelago. Most of the island is public land managed by the Tongass National Forest.
Ketchikan Creek is a waterway on Revillagigedo Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads in a lake and travels 6 miles (9.7 km) to Tongass Narrows. The historic Creek Street in Ketchikan runs along the creek banks as a piling-perched boardwalk.
The Stedman–Thomas Historic District encompasses what was historically the southern portion of Ketchikan, Alaska. 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 influx of settlers to the area.
Coast Guard Base Ketchikan is a major shore installation of the United States Coast Guard located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The base is a homeport for two Sentinel-class cutters and a buoy tender, and is the only Coast Guard dry dock in the state. Located one mile south of the city's downtown area along the southwestern shore of Revillagigedo Island, the base was originally established in 1920 to support the United States Lighthouse Service and became part of the Coast Guard in 1940. In addition to the homeported cutters, Base Ketchikan's maintenance facilities support forward-deployed cutters throughout Southeast Alaska, in Petersburg, Juneau and Sitka.
The Downtown Ketchikan Historic District in Ketchikan, Alaska was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
Clover Pass is an unincorporated community in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska. Workers organized and built the Clover Pass School in 1947 and it was used as a community center in the 1960s. Wards Cove was a shipwreck in the area after an engine fire sank it in 1929. The area, on Clover Passage, includes a marina and is popular for sportfishing as well as kayaking and sailing. It is home to Clover Pass Resort including campsites.
