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Population: 1,856. [4] 1922 – Anchorage Public Library Association organized. [6] 1924 – KFQD radio begins broadcasting. 1936 City Hall built. Alaska State Fair begins near Anchorage. 1939 – Federal Building constructed. [7] 1940 – U.S. military Elmendorf Field begins operating near Anchorage. 1941 – U.S. Army Fort Richardson built ...
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
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.
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 ...
Population [10] Area [11] Map Aleutians East Borough: 013: Sand Point: Second: 1987-Its location in the east Aleutian Islands, which are themselves of uncertain linguistic origin; possibly derived from Chukchi word aliat ("island") 0.50 3,461: 6,985 sq mi (18,091 km 2) Anchorage: 020 (Consolidated city-borough) Unified Home Rule: 1964/1975
With a population of 733,391, according to the 2020 U.S. census, [7] Alaska is the 49th most populous and least densely populated state. For purposes of the federal census, the state is divided into artificial divisions defined geographically by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
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The Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of the Municipality of Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the south central region of Alaska. [2] As of the 2010 census, the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) had a population of 380,821. [3]