Ketchikan is Alaska’s southeastern most major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic District. With a population of 8,000+, it is the fifth-most populous city in the state, and tenth-most populous community. The surrounding borough, encompassing suburbs both north and south of the city along the Tongass Highway (most of which are commonly regarded as a part of Ketchikan, albeit not a part of the city itself), plus small rural settlements accessible mostly by water, registered a population of 13,477…
