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Totem Heritage Center

Totem Heritage Center, a museum in Alaska
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Totem Heritage Center, a museum in Alaska
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Totem Heritage Center, a museum in Alaska
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Totem Heritage Center, a museum in Alaska
Gregory Varnum · CC BY-SA 4.0
Totem Heritage Center, a museum in Alaska
Eric Polk · CC BY-SA 4.0
Totem Heritage Center, a museum in Alaska
Eric Polk · CC BY-SA 4.0

Totem Heritage Center is a museum in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 21 m. Mahoney Mountain stands 1,015 m to the northeast, 5.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Totem Heritage Museum Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Alaska's Marine Highway passes 1.4 miles off.

About

The story

The Totem Heritage Center is a historical and cultural museum founded in 1976 and located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The center is operated by the city of Ketchikan. The location of the Totem Heritage Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Alaska Totems on June 21, 1971.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1976.

Wikidata Q3532720, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates55.34259, -131.63410

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Artworks: 19
Parks: 8
  • Totem Heritage Museum Park: 0.0 mi
  • City Park: 0.1 mi
  • Whale Park: 0.4 mi
  • Eagle Park: 0.6 mi
  • Saxman Totem Park: 2.2 mi
Attractions: 4
Beaches: 4
  • Refuge cove: 6.7 mi
  • South Point Higgins Beach: 10.6 mi
  • Coast Guard Beach: 11.2 mi
  • Refuge beach: 12.2 mi
Museums: 3
Historic sites: 2
  • Raven Stealing The Sun: 0.4 mi
  • Lost at Sea Memorial: 2.5 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Grassy Point Picnic Site: 5.3 mi
  • Ward Lake Day Use Area: 5.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.9 miles of Totem Heritage Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mahoney MountainNE 43°1,015 m5.1 mi
Northbird MountainNE 52°1,003 m3.4 mi
John MountainNNE 32°987 m4.4 mi
Roy Jones MountainNE 53°944 m3.1 mi
Twin PeaksENE 70°942 m5.2 mi
Achilles MountainENE 78°919 m3.6 mi
Deer MountainE 89°915 m1.4 mi
Brown MountainN 359°908 m5.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:1219:00
June solstice04:0520:3021:33
September equinox06:3317:5918:47
December solstice08:1314:0215:18

Local time (America/Sitka).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F363740455257606155484037
Precip in17.611.112.69.57.25.96.511.217.719.119.519.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beaver Falls, 3 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/366338347

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