City of Kenai, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
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- Kenai
- City of Kenai
- Incorporated City
- population 778, at mouth of Kenai River, on E shore of Cook Inlet, 65 mi. SW of Anchorage, Cook Inlet Low.
- A fortified post, called Redut Svataya Nikolaya, or Fort St. Nicholas, was built in 1791 by Grigor Konovalof, commander of the St George, of the Lebedef-Lastochkin Company. The village was also called Pauls Fort, or Pavlovskaya, by the Russians. In 1869 a U. S. Military Post, named Fort Kenai, for the Indians living in the area, was established there, and in 1899 the Kenai post office was authorized (ricks, 1965 p. 32). The population was 44 in 1880; in 1890, 263; in 1910, 250; in 1920, 332; in 1930, 286.
- 60.554444460° 33' 16.0"N-151.2583333151° 15' 30.0"W
- Salamatof 4.7 mi. NW
- Ridgeway 6.1 mi. E
- Soldotna 8.2 mi. SE
- Nikiski 9.4 mi. N
- Kalifornsky 9.5 mi. S
- Port Nikiski 9.8 mi. NW
- Russian Orthodox 0.3 mi. W
- Saint Nicholas Memorial Chapel 0.3 mi. W
- Kenai City 0.4 mi. N
- Kenai City 0.4 mi. N
- Leif Hansen Memorial Park 0.4 mi. E
- Cannery 1.6 mi. S
- Heavenly Meadows 3.6 mi. S
- Damon Memorial (Soldotna) 6.8 mi. SE
- Kalifornsky Village Orthodox Church 7.5 mi. S
- Gaede Homestead (Soldotna) 8.1 mi. SE
- Monfor 9.2 mi. N
- Seaman 9.3 mi. N
- 7,610
- 22 m
- 293389354
- Updated Apr 24, 2020