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The Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center (YPCC), also known as Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center and Museum, formerly known as the Yup'ik Museum, Library, and Multipurpose Cultural Center (or Facility), is a non-profit cultural center of the Yup'ik (and sometimes Alaskan Athabaskan of the region) culture centrally located in Bethel, Alaska near the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Kuskokwim ...
Wrangell Medical Center, Wrangell; Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital, Bethel; References "Alaska Hospitals". US Hospital Quest; This page was last ...
Bethel – Within the heart of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta lays Bethel, a hub community for 56 surrounding villages, the gateway to the Yukon Delta, and home to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation. Roughly 400 miles (600 km) west of Anchorage, Bethel is charged by a maritime climate that averages 65–70 °F during the summer months, and a ...
Bethel is home to the lone detention center in southwestern Alaska, the Yukon Kuskokwim Correction Center. [32] This prison has a capacity of 207 inmates, men and women, and a staff of 45. [33] Bethel is also the site of a unique 8.5-mile (13.7 km) prototype single-wire earth return electrical intertie to Napakiak, Alaska, constructed in 1981. [34]
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough.Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses councils of government and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]
The Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is a river delta located where the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers empty into the Bering Sea on the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. At approximately 129,500 square kilometers (50,000 sq mi) in size, [ 1 ] it is one of the largest deltas in the world.
Napakiak, a Yup’ik village of about 350 residents in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, was flooded Sunday after heavy rains swelled the Kuskokwim River. Conditions beforehand were “pretty brutal ...
Kotlik is located at Kotlik is located on the east bank of the Kotlik Slough, 35 miles northeast of Emmonak in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.7 square miles (12 km 2), of which, 3.8 square miles (9.8 km 2) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2) of it (17.85%) is water.