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Print/export Download as PDF ... The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Anchorage, Alaska, ... Anchorage Hotel built. Population: 3,332. [4] 1917 ...
In the 1940s and 1950s, Anchorage began looking more like a city. Between 1940 and 1951, Anchorage's population increased from 3,000 to 47,000. Crime and the cost of living in the city also grew. In 1949, the first traffic lights were installed on Fourth Avenue. In 1951, the Seward Highway was opened.
Population [14] Notes 1 Anchorage: Anchorage Municipality: 174,431: City of Anchorage merged with Greater Anchorage Area Borough in 1975 to form the Municipality of Anchorage. [15] 2 Fairbanks: Fairbanks North Star Borough: 22,645: 3 Juneau: City & Borough of Juneau: 19,528
Anchorage, and Alaska in general, have very high rates of sexual assault in comparison with the rest of the country, with Anchorage's annual rate of forcible rapes over three times as high as for the U.S. as a whole. In 2010, the rate of rape for Anchorage was 90.9 per 100,000 population, [122] while the U.S. rate was 27.5 per 100,000 ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... Pages in category "History of Anchorage, Alaska" ... History of Anchorage, Alaska; Timeline of Anchorage, Alaska; A. 1964 Alaska ...
Anchorage: 020 (Consolidated city-borough) Unified Home Rule: 1964/1975: Anchorage Borough formed in 1964, merged with city in 1975 to form unified city-borough: Derived from the presence of a safe place to anchor and unload supplies for construction of the Alaska Railroad c. 1913, thereby creating a community. 167.59 286,075: 1,707 sq mi ...
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