Lowell Point, Alaska
census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Lowell Point is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States, just outside Seward. As of the 2020 census, Lowell Point had a population of 79.
Geography
Lowell Point is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula at 60°4′18″N 149°26′37″W (60.071557, -149.443715). It sits on the western shore of Resurrection Bay and is bordered to the northeast by the city of Seward. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 11.9 square miles (30.9 km2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.06 km2), or 0.18%, are water.
The only road access is Lowell Point Road, an extension of Seward's Railway Avenue which begins beyond the Seward townsite boundaries, a short distance southwest of the Alaska SeaLife Center and the southern terminus of the Seward Highway. The road is a rough gravel road running along a thin strip of flat land between the mountains and Resurrection Bay, and provides access to the CDP, and beyond to Caines Head State Recreation Area and Fort McGilvray.
Lowell Point does not have a formal harbor, as the well-developed Seward Harbor is a short distance away, but small boats can make beach landings.
Demographics
Lowell Point first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as the homestead of the Captain Franklin G. Lowell family, consisting of 12 residents, 10 Whites, 1 Native & 1 Creole (mixed Native & Russian). It did not report again until 2000, when it first appeared as Lowell Point and made a census-designated place (CDP).
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