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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.
[7] [14] In 1907, [15] By 1910, the Alaska Road Commission completed the upgrade, making the trail usable as a wagon road. Major Wilds P. Richardson led the project and later became the namesake for the highway. He was promoted to general later in his career. [7]) Stages plied the road, using horse-drawn sledges in winter and wagons in summer. [15]
This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The specific problem is: this article is about the Deltana CDP, but the text describes the Delta Junction area in general, as follows: 1) McCarty is a part of the present-day Big Delta CDP, very near Rika's Landing Roadhouse; 2) Buffalo Center is the historic name for what is now Delta Junction.
Mile 227.4 of Richardson Highway, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Delta Junction: Nearest city: Delta Junction: Coordinates: Area: less than one acre: Built: 1902 () NRHP reference No. 01000021 [1] AHRS No. XMH-00223: Added to NRHP: February 2, 2001
The roadhouse 2 acres (0.81 ha) area was not easily accessible by the public due to its remote location, lack of a public road, and the possibility of un-exploded ordnance from the nearby bombing range. The Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Army, and local historians moved the building into Delta Junction in 1997. The original building was ...
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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.
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 ...