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Broad Pass

A vanished town in Matanuska-Susitna County, Alaska.

Survey record — verification pendingFILED: AK

Broad Pass

Matanuska-Susitna County, Alaska

records pending
Classification
Vanished town (federal archive)
Coordinates
63.2333° N, 149.2667° W

What the record shows

The federal survey describes the site: population 10, mile 304.3 on The Alaska RR. in Broad Pass, 12 mi. SW of Cantwell and 45 mi. SW of Healy, Talkeetna Mts.

Name taken from pass in which it is located; reported by The Alaska RR. on its 1922 timetable.

Broad Passappears in the U.S. Geological Survey's place-name archive as a historical populated place — a settlement that once carried a name and no longer does. Our editors are verifying its full story against census records, newspaper archives, and county histories; this record will grow as sources are confirmed.

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