Kenai Peninsula Borough

administration
US state :	Alaska
Administrative headquarters :	Soldotna
Address of the administrative headquarters:	144 North Binkley Street Borough Seat Soldotna, AK 99669-7599
Foundation :
Area code :	907
Demographics
Residents :	58,506  (2016)
Population density :	1.4 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	64,114 km²
Water surface :	22,640 km²
map
Website : www.borough.kenai.ak.us

The Kenai Peninsula Borough is a borough (district) in the state of Alaska in the United States of America with 55,400 inhabitants (as of 2010). The administrative seat is Soldotna .

geography

The borough lies on both sides of the Cook Inlet between the Alaska Range and the Kenai Peninsula , on which the Kenai Fjords National Park is located. The borough has a total area of ​​64,114 square kilometers; of which 41,474 square kilometers are land and 22,640 square kilometers (35.31 percent) are water.

history

The borough was established with effect from January 1, 1964 on September 13, 1963. It was named after the Kenaitze people who lived here. This name, in turn, has Russian roots and comes from Kenayskaya , the name for Cook Inlet .

The Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church has been a National Historic Landmark since April 1970 .

35 buildings and sites in the city are registered on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of April 21, 2020), including the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church and the Yukon Island Main Site have the status of National Historic Landmarks .

towns and places

Anchor Point Bear Creek Beluga Clam gulch Cohoe Cooper Landing Crown Point Diamond Ridge Fox River Fritz Creek

Funny River Halibut Cove Happy Valley Homer Hope Kachemak Kalifornsky Casilof Kenai

Lowell Point Miller Landing Moose Pass Nanwalek Nikiski Nikolaevsk Ninilchik Port Graham Primrose

Ridgeway Salamatof Seldovia Seldovia Village Seward Soldotna sterling Sunrise Tyonek

Web links

Commons : Kenai Peninsula Borough  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 160.
2. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Alaska. National Park Service , accessed April 21, 2020.
3. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed April 21, 2020.
   Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed April 21, 2020.
   Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Alaska. National Park Service , accessed April 21, 2020.

Coordinates: 60 ° 12 ′  N , 151 ° 38 ′  W