Alaska Gazetteer
Mount Kinkaid is a physical feature (summit) in Sitka Borough. The primary coordinates for Mount Kinkaid places it within the AK 99835 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Mount Kinkaid |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | on W coast of Baranof I., 6.5 mi. S of Sitka; Alex. Arch. |
| History: | "named in 1897 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) probably for C. A. Kinkaid, a member of the first council elected at Sitka after the transfer of Alaska to the United States. Chetyrekh Ugolnoy Piramidoy,"" meaning ""mountain of four cornered pyramid,"" was applied to this feature in 1809 by Ivan Vasiliev the first, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN)." |
| Borough: | Sitka Borough |
| Latitude: | 56.9535522461 |
| Longitude: | -135.324401855 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount Kinkaid: Mount Kinkaid.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Mount Kinkaid does not include property ownership information.
| Goddard, AK (8.4 miles SSW) |
