Homer is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 218 mi southwest of Anchorage. According to the 2020 census, the population was 5,522, up from 5,003 in 2010. Long known a
Downtown Homer seen from Beluga Slough
Coal Point Park. The plaque reads, "Coal Point Site of the Cook Inlet Coal Fields Company Roundhouse Railroad shops, and boardwalk with coal-oil lamp lighting system. The original Homer townsite was surveyed by the Land Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1896. State of Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, Alaska Centennial Commission."