Southeast Alaska · AK
Ketchikan
The Salmon Capital of the World, Alaska's first stop north.
- Population
- 8,192 (2020 census)
- Founded
- 1885
- Incorporated
- 1900
Then
- Before 1885
Tlingit people use Ketchikan Creek as a summer fish camp.
- 1885
Mike Martin sets up the town for an Oregon cannery outfit.
- 1900
Ketchikan incorporates on August 25, the oldest incorporated city still existing in Alaska.
- 1997
The Ketchikan Pulp Company mill closes, costing 514 jobs.
Now
Government, tourism and fishing run the town, and cruise ships call hundreds of times a summer. This place covers Revillagigedo Channel, Behm Canal and the east side of Prince of Wales Island.
16 tide stations around Ketchikan
- Ketchikan1.1 mi
- Ward Cove5.0 mi
- Vallenar Point9.8 mi
- Coon Island, George Inlet9.9 mi
- Nehenta Bay, Gravina Island13.5 mi
- Mop Point, Thorne Arm16.4 mi
- Loring, Naha Bay17.9 mi
- Lancaster Cove, Cholmondeley Sound19.8 mi
- Menefee Anch., Prince of Wales Island26.2 mi
- Divide Head, Cholmondeley Sound26.5 mi
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- Niblack Anchorage, Moira Sound26.7 mi
- Ingraham Bay, Prince of Wales Island28.8 mi
- Hut Point, Behm Canal38.7 mi
- Rudyerd Bay44.3 mi
- Fitzgibbon Cove48.0 mi
- Burrough Bay, Behm Canal52.7 mi