<Tr> <Th> FIPS code </Th> <Td> 02 - 84510 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> GNIS feature ID </Th> <Td> 1415757 </Td> </Tr> <P> Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles southeast of Anchorage . The city is within the Valdez--Cordova Census Area . The 2015 population estimate was 214 people, almost all of whom live in a single building . Whittier is also a port for the Alaska Marine Highway . </P> <P> The region now occupied by Whittier was once part of the portage route of the Chugach people native to Prince William Sound . Later, the passage was used by Russian and American explorers, and by prospecting miners during the gold rush . The nearby Whittier glacier was named for American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1915, and the town eventually took the name as well . </P>

Town in alaska where everyone lives in one building