THE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pacific Coastal Mountains setting.
Kenai Peninsula Borough has 16,017.7 square miles of land in Alaska. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Kenai Peninsula Borough: Pacific Coastal Mountains, Alaska Range, Cook Inlet, among others.
Coastal Alaska's steep, wet mountains include large areas of glacial terrain. Rocky slopes and ice-covered highlands contrast with lower shrub-covered settings where vegetation can establish.
Regional context: Pacific Coastal Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Kenai Peninsula Borough intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Pacific Coastal Mountains29.8%
- Alaska Range29.7%
- Cook Inlet24.5%
- Alaska Peninsula Mountains9%
- Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests7.1%
Alaska Range in Kenai Peninsula Borough
Very high, steep mountains carry extensive icefields, glaciers and rocky slopes. Vegetation is limited in the highest and most exposed portions of the Alaska Range.
Read the regional source ↗Cook Inlet in Kenai Peninsula Borough
Glacially shaped level and rolling terrain surrounds Cook Inlet. Spruce and hardwood vegetation occupies a relatively mild coastal setting compared with much of interior Alaska.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Kenai Peninsula Borough
The atlas lists 37 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kenai Peninsula Borough, including Ninilchik, Fox River, Beluga. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kenai Peninsula Borough by land and water
The Census records 8,703.5 square miles of water within Kenai Peninsula Borough, or 35.2% of its total area. That share is close to Kenai Peninsula Borough’s 35.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kenai Peninsula Borough has 1,200.6 times the land area of nearby Clam Gulch CDP (13.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anchorage Municipality, Bethel Census Area, Chugach Census Area, Kodiak Island Borough, Lake and Peninsula Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.