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New Boston

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท ALASKA

A historical populated place in Juneau County, Alaska, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
New Boston
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
Alaska
County
Juneau County
USGS Map
Juneau B-2 SE
Coordinates
58.3000000, -134.4500000
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GNIS Feature ID
1895865

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

GNIS description

site of town near Grant Creek Don Douglas I., 1 mi. W of Juneau, Coast Mts.

GNIS historical note

Name of a short-lived town mentioned by DeArmond (1957, p. 23).

Also recorded as

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1895865. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.

GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.

  • Text Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.