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Delta Junction (Russian: Делта-Джанкшен; Ukrainian: Делта-Джанкшен, romanized: Delta Dzhankshen), officially the City of Delta Junction, is a small city in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 958, up from 840 in 2000. The 2018 estimate was down to 931.
[7] [14] In 1907, [15] By 1910, the Alaska Road Commission completed the upgrade, making the trail usable as a wagon road. Major Wilds P. Richardson led the project and later became the namesake for the highway. He was promoted to general later in his career. [7]) Stages plied the road, using horse-drawn sledges in winter and wagons in summer. [15]
The Alaska Highway portion of Route 2 was once proposed to be part of the U.S. Highway System, to be signed as part of U.S. Route 97.This proposal was initiated after British Columbia renumbered a series of highways to British Columbia Highway 97 between the Canada–United States border at U.S. 97's northern terminus south of Osoyoos, and the border with the Yukon territory south of Watson Lake.
It begins at the junction with a few Canadian highways in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and runs to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon. When it was completed in 1942, it was about 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) long, but in 2012, it was only 2,232 km (1,387 mi).
This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The specific problem is: this article is about the Deltana CDP, but the text describes the Delta Junction area in general, as follows: 1) McCarty is a part of the present-day Big Delta CDP, very near Rika's Landing Roadhouse; 2) Buffalo Center is the historic name for what is now Delta Junction.
It is marked as Alaska Route 4 from Valdez to Delta Junction and as Alaska Route 2 from there to Fairbanks. It also connects segments of Alaska Route 1 between the Glenn Highway and the Tok Cut-Off. The Richardson Highway was the first major road built in Alaska. [1]
Fort Greely is located at (63.905016, -145.554566 Fort Greely is located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Delta Junction on the Richardson Highway.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 169.7 square miles (440 km 2). 169.4 square miles (439 km 2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) of it (0.21%) is water.
Healy Lake is located at (63.988835, -144.708173 The Healy Lake Village is located roughly 29 miles east of Delta Junction, Alaska. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 74.3 square miles (192 km 2), of which, 66.2 square miles (171 km 2) of it is land and 8.1 square miles (21 km 2) of it (10.86%) is water.