Salamatof, Alaska
Salamatof (Dena'ina: Ken Dech’etl’t) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 1,078 at the 2020 census, up from 980 in 2010. Salamatof is the location for the former Wildwood Air Force Station, which operated from 1965 to 1972 (from 1951 to 1965, it was an Army Station). Today, it is the Wildwood Correctional Complex. Geography Salamatof is located on the western side of the Kenai Peninsula at (60.593250, -151.310547), and comprises populated areas between the city of Kenai to the south and unincorporated Nikiski to the north. It is bordered to the west by Cook Inlet. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Salamatof CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 2.05%, are water. Demographics Salamatof first appeared on the 1980 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP). Its predecessor was Wildwood Air Force Station, which appeared on the 1970 census, and was located on the southeast side of the CDP. It had 750 residents stationed there before its closure in 1972. As of the census of 2000, there were 954 people, 220 households, and 163 families residing in the CDP. The population density