Seward
Kenai Peninsula · USGS GNIS name record 1414598
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Original USGS record for Seward ↗Dataset snapshot 2026-09-02 · Source record edited 02/14/2011 · NAD83 · approximate source location
USGS description & history
population 1,891 on Kenai Peninsula, at NW end of Resurrection Bay, Chugach Mts.
Named for William Henry Seward, 1801-72, U.S. Secretary of State, 1861-69, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska. "The town was founded in 1902 by surveyors for The Alaska RR. (built 1915-23) as the ocean terminus of the RR. with an airfield and an ice-free harbor, it is an important supply center for the Alaska interior" (Bridgewater and Sherwood, 1950, p. 1799). A post office was established here in 1895, discontinued in 1896, but reestablished in 1903 (Ricks, 1965, p. 57). Its population was 534 in 1910; 652 in 1920; 835 in 1930; 949 in 1939; and 2,114 in 1950.
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