Ketchikan could be a town in Ketchikan entranceway Borough, Alaska, us, the southeasternmost sizable town in Last Frontier. With AN calculable population of fourteen,070 in 2010 at intervals town limits, it’s the fifth-most thickly settled 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 monument is one in every of the area’s major attractions. for many of the latter 1/2 the twentieth century, an outsized portion of Ketchikan’s economy and life focused 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 that means of that is unclear. it’s going to mean “the watercourse happiness to Kitschk”; alternative accounts claim it suggests that “Thundering Wings of AN Eagle.” Ketchikan’s secondary post workplace box postcode, 99928, is one in every of the best nothing codes ever allotted within the us, though most residents use the postcode 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 area unit replicas of older poles, graven throughout the Roosevelt Administration through the cardinal, or reproduced in additional recent decades.
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