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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.
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).
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.
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AK-11-A, "Valdez-Fairbanks Trail Roadhouses, Sullivan Roadhouse, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK", 18 photos, 3 measured drawings, 4 data pages, 1 photo caption page; Delta Junction Chamber of Commerce - Sullivan Roadhouse
The Alaska and Glenn highways, built during World War II, connected the rest of the continent and Anchorage to the Richardson Highway at Delta Junction and Glennallen respectively, allowing motor access to the new military bases built in the Territory just prior to the war: Fort Richardson in Anchorage, and Fort Wainwright adjacent to Fairbanks ...
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
It was a "cut-off" because it allowed motor travelers from the lower United States to travel to Valdez and Anchorage in south-central Alaska without going further north to Delta Junction and then traveling south on the Richardson Highway. When originally being surveyed from the air, the map marking showed the "T" intersection, and the letters ...
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.