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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]
The Chena Pump House, also known just as the Pump House Restaurant, is a restaurant at 796 Chena Pump Road in Fairbanks, Alaska. The restaurant is located in the shell of a 1933 pumping station established by the Fairbanks Exploration Company , Alaska's largest gold mining operator at the time.
Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system, established in 1917. Fairbanks International Airport is located three miles (4.8 km) southwest of the central business district of the city; Fairbanks is the smallest city in the United States with regularly scheduled non-stop ...
In 1968, the vast Prudhoe Bay Oil Field was discovered in Alaska's North Slope. Fairbanks became a supply point for exploitation of the oil field and for construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which caused a boom unseen since the first years of Fairbanks' founding and helped the town recover from the devastating 1967 Fairbanks Flood.
Last sunset of the year in Utqiagvik today...the sun won't rise again until January 23rd of next year. That's 65 days from now! — NWS Fairbanks (@NWSFairbanks) November 18, 2022
Location of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.
Fairbanks North Star: 33 11 Haines: 6 12 Hoonah–Angoon: 20 13 Juneau: 23 14 Kenai Peninsula: 38 15 Ketchikan Gateway: 20 16 Kodiak Island: 27 17 Kusilvak 0 18 Lake and Peninsula: 25 19 Matanuska-Susitna: 30 20 Nome: 20 21 North Slope: 18 22 Northwest Arctic: 3 23 Petersburg: 4 24 Prince of Wales–Hyder: 7 25 Sitka: 22 26 Skagway: 3 27 ...
North Pole is a small city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.Incorporated in 1953, it is part of the Fairbanks metropolitan statistical area.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 2,243, [2] up from 2,117 in 2010. [3]