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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.
The Alaska Highway met the Richardson Highway at Delta Junction, five miles (8 km) north on the Richardson Highway from what is now Fort Greely. The United States used the base to help the Soviet Union fight Germany and Japan by sending airplanes and supplies authorized by the Lend-lease act through Alaska and into the Soviet Far East.
It was named for Carl Ben Eielson, an Alaska aviation pioneer who was killed, along with his mechanic Earl Borland, in the crash of their Hamilton H-45 aircraft in 1929. Eielson and Borland were attempting a rescue flight to an icebound ship in the Bering Sea when they were killed. On 1 April 1948, the Eielson Air Force Base Wing (Base ...
Allen Army Airfield (IATA: BIG, ICAO: PABI, FAA LID: BIG) is a public and military use airport serving Fort Greely and located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Delta Junction, a city in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Delta Junction Airport (IATA: DJN, FAA LID: D66) is a public use airport located in and owned by Delta Junction, [1] a city in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 252 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, [ 2 ] and 350 enplanements ...
Northern terminus of concurrency with Alaska Route 1; Southern terminus of Tok Cut-Off Highway: Paxson: 186: 299: AK-8 west (Denali Highway) – Denali National Park: Eastern terminus of Alaska Route 8 & Denali Highway: Delta Junction: 266: 428: AK-2 south (Alaska Highway) Northern terminus of Alaska Route 4, Alaska Route 2 continues north as ...
Map of Alaska's area code, 907, as well as the other dialing codes surrounding it. Area code 907 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Alaska, except for the small southeastern community of Hyder, which uses area codes 236, 250, and 778 of neighboring Stewart, British Columbia.
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.