Saxman
Saxman is a town on Revillagigedo Island in Ketchikan Gateway Borough in southeastern Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 411, down from 431 in 2000. The city of Ketchikan lies just to its northwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 391 residents
- Description: Alaska Native Village and federally recognized Tribe
- Also known as: “Organized Village of Saxman” and “Saxman, Alaska”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saxman Totem Park and Deer Mountains.
Saxman Totem Park
Photo: Jerzystrzelecki, CC BY 3.0.
Saxman Totem Park is a public park in the city of Saxman, Alaska, just south of Ketchikan in southeastern Alaska. The park is home to a collection of totem poles, some of which are old poles relocated to this place from unoccupied Tlingit villages in the region, or were reconstructed by skilled Tlingit carvers under the auspices of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
Deer Mountains
Peak
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Deer Mountain is a 3,001.97 feet mountain peak located in the Tongass National Forest in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, which dominates the skyline behind downtown Ketchikan. Deer Mountains is situated 1½ miles north of Saxman.
Stedman–Thomas Historic District
Historic site
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The Stedman–Thomas Historic District encompasses what was historically the southern portion of Ketchikan, Alaska. It extends along Stedman and Thomas Streets, from Ketchikan Creek in the north to East Street in the south, and includes a few properties on adjacent spur side streets. Stedman–Thomas Historic District is situated 2½ miles northwest of Saxman.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ketchikan.
Ketchikan
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Ketchikan is a scenic town of approximately 14,000 people along the Tongass Narrows, at the foot of Deer Mountain, on Revillagigedo Island in Southeast Alaska. It is the southernmost and fourth largest city in Alaska.
Saxman
Latitude
55.31833° or 55° 19′ 6″ northLongitude
-131.59583° or 131° 35′ 45″ westPopulation
391Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
947C8C93+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 150919831OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5557045Wikidata ID
Q79347
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Volapük—“Saxman” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Saxman, Alaska”
- Albanian: “Saxman”
- Arabic: “ساكسمان”
- Basque: “Saxman”
- Basque: “T’èesh Ḵwáan Xagu”
- Catalan: “Saxman”
- Cebuano: “Saxman”
- Central Kurdish: “ساکسمان، ئالاسکا”
- Chechen: “Саксмен”
- Chinese: “Saxman”
- Chinese: “萨克斯曼”
- Czech: “Saxman”
- Danish: “Saxman”
- Dutch: “Saxman”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساكسمان”
- French: “Saxman”
- German: “Saxman”
- Gilaki: “ساکسمن”
- Haitian: “Saxman”
- Irish: “Saxman”
- Italian: “Saxman”
- Ladin: “Saxman”
- Malagasy: “Saxman, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Saxman”
- Malayalam: “സാക്സ്മാൻ, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “സാക്സ്മാൻ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saxman”
- Newari: “स्याक्सम्यान (अलास्का)”
- Newari: “स्याक्सम्यान, अलास्का”
- Newari: “स्याक्सम्यान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saxman”
- Norwegian: “Saxman”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saxman”
- Persian: “سکسمن، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “سکسمن، الاسکا”
- Persian: “سکسمن”
- Polish: “Saxman”
- Portuguese: “Saxman”
- Russian: “Саксман”
- Serbian: “Саксман”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saxman, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saxman”
- Slovak: “Saxman”
- South Azerbaijani: “سکسمن، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “سکسمن”
- Spanish: “Saxman”
- Tatar: “Саксмен”
- Ukrainian: “Саксмен”
- Uzbek: “Saxman”
- Volapük: “Saxman”
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