Kenai
Kenai Peninsula · USGS GNIS name record 1413299
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These Census tracts have reference points near Kenai. Their figures describe the entire named tract, not this locality. Open a tract to inspect its map, sources and demographic percentages.
Census tract 6 ↗
Kenai Peninsula Borough · AK
- Population
- 7,641
- Median home value
- $283,900
Census tract 7.02 ↗
Kenai Peninsula Borough · AK
- Population
- 5,029
- Median home value
- $334,100
Census tract 5 ↗
Kenai Peninsula Borough · AK
- Population
- 6,604
- Median home value
- $311,200
The source behind the name
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Original USGS record for Kenai ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 06/07/2022 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
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.
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