Ketchikan may be a town in Ketchikan entryway Borough, Alaska, us, the southeasternmost sizable town in AK. With AN calculable population of fourteen,070 in 2010 among town limits, it’s the fifth-most inhabited town within the state. Ketchikan’s economy is predicated upon business enterprise and fishing, and therefore the town is thought because the “Salmon Capital of the globe.” The Misty Fjords memorial is one in all the area’s major attractions. for many of the latter half the twentieth century, an oversized portion of Ketchikan’s economy and life targeted round the Ketchikan Pulp Company pulp mill in close Ward Cove. Ketchikan is called once Ketchikan Creek, that flows through the city. Ketchikan comes from the Tlingit name for the creek, Kitschk-hin, the which means of that is unclear. it should mean “the stream happiness to Kitschk”; different accounts claim it means that “Thundering Wings of AN Eagle.” Ketchikan’s secondary post workplace box postal code, 99928, is one in all the best nada codes ever appointed within the us, though most residents use the postal code 99901. Ketchikan additionally has the world’s largest assortment of standing totem poles, found at 3 major locations: town of Saxman, Totem Bight State Park, and therefore the Totem Heritage Center. several of the totems ar replicas of older poles, sculpted throughout the Roosevelt Administration through the cardinal, or reproduced in additional recent decades.
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