Nome-Council Highway

A photograph of the highway taken in May 2002 near the city of Nome in Alaska.
The Nome-Council Highway in May.
A picture of the airport at Solomon, Alaska, along the Nome-Council Highway.
A picture of the airport at Solomon, along the Nome-Council Road.

Nome-Council Highway is the 72-mile (116 km) gravel road running along the Seward Peninsula road system from coastal beaches and wetlands near Nome, Alaska, through tundra meadows and high dwarf tundra, to a river valley at the western edge of the boreal forest near the abandoned townsite of Council.

There are four important landmarks that are listed in the United States National Register of Historic Places within the Nome Census Area.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 16, 2016.[1]
[2] Name on the Register[3] Image Date listed[4] Location City or town Description
1 Swanberg Dredge
Swanberg Dredge
March 12, 2001
(#01000232)
 Mile 1 of the Nome-Council Highway
64°29′32″N 165°21′37″W / 64.492222°N 165.360278°W / 64.492222; -165.360278 (Swanberg Dredge)		 Nome
2 Cape Nome Roadhouse
Cape Nome Roadhouse
December 12, 1976
(#76000361)
 Mile 14 of the Nome-Council Highway
64°26′37″N 164°58′28″W / 64.443611°N 164.974444°W / 64.443611; -164.974444 (Cape Nome Roadhouse)		 Nome
3 Council City and Solomon River Railroad
Council City and Solomon River Railroad
March 2, 2001
(#01000109)
 Mile 31 of the Nome-Council Highway
64°32′46″N 164°25′58″W / 64.546111°N 164.432778°W / 64.546111; -164.432778 (Council City and Solomon River Railroad)		 Solomon
4 Solomon Roadhouse
Solomon Roadhouse
September 17, 1980
(#80000760)
 Mile 32 of the Nome-Council Highway
64°33′34″N 164°26′22″W / 64.559444°N 164.439444°W / 64.559444; -164.439444 (Solomon Roadhouse)		 Solomon

See also

References

Route map: Bing / Google

KML is from Wikidata
  1. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on December 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
  3. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-24). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. ↑ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.


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