Information About

Stockade Point

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 3' 25.999" N,
134 ° 1' 18.001" W

Region

Juneau

Nearest City

Juneau

Elevation

135 ft (41.15 m)

Stockade Point in Detail.

About

on E shore of Stephens Passage, at mouth of Taku Harbor, 2 mi. NW of Limestone Inlet and 22 mi. SE of Juneau, Coast Mts.

History

So named in 1869 by Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN), because the ruins of a blockhouse and stockade built by the Hudson's Bay Co. in 1840-41 were on the point. The name was published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 169).

Topo Maps

Juneau (1951), Juneau (1951), Juneau (1951), Juneau (1951), Juneau A-1 (1951), Juneau A-1 (1951), Juneau A-1 (1954), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau (1962), Juneau A-1 (1996), Juneau A-1 SE (2017),
Places Near Stockade Point
Cities:

Sikanasankian,

Bars:

Cherokee Flats,

Bays:

Doty Cove, Fool Inlet, Limestone Inlet, Slocum Inlet, Suicide Cove, Taku Harbor, Winning Cove,

Capes:

Point Anmer, Arden Point, Bishop Point, Circle Point, Cooper Point, Cove Point, False Arden, Grave Point, Greely Point, Point Salisbury, Station Point, Stockade Point, Point Styleman, Twin Point,

Dams:

Taku Cannery Dam,

Islands:

Bug Island, Grand Island, Mist Island, South Island, Swan Island,

Lakes:

Bart Lake, Lake Dorothy, Lieuy Lake, Taku Lake,

Mountains:

Arthur Peak, Butler Peak, Everett Peak, Fillmore Peak, Irving Peak, Limestone Bluffs, Morse Peak, North Rhine Peak, Randolph Peak, South Rhine Peak, Steeple Peak, Taku Mountain, Webster Peak, Williams Mountain,

Parks:

Taku Harbor State Marine Park,

Rivers:

Whiting River,

Streams:

Anmer Creek, Dorothy Creek, Grindstone Creek, Limestone Creek, Mist Creek, Prospect Creek, Rhine Creek,

Valleys:

Goldstein Gulch, Marmot Valley,

Cities:

Taku Harbor,