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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 the 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.
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 ...
[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]
The Alaska and Glenn highways, built during World War II, connected the rest of the continent and Anchorage to the Richardson Highway at Delta Junction and Glennallen respectively, allowing motor access to the new military bases built in the Territory just prior to the war: Fort Richardson in Anchorage, and Fort Wainwright adjacent to Fairbanks ...
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Healy Lake is located at (63.988835, -144.708173 The Healy Lake Village is located roughly 29 miles east of Delta Junction, Alaska. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 74.3 square miles (192 km 2), of which, 66.2 square miles (171 km 2) of it is land and 8.1 square miles (21 km 2) of it (10.86%) is water.
The George Parks Highway (numbered Interstate A-4 and signed Alaska Route 3), usually called simply the Parks Highway, runs 323 miles (520 km) from the Glenn Highway 35 miles (56 km) north of Anchorage to Fairbanks in the Alaska Interior. The highway, originally known as the Anchorage-Fairbanks Highway, was completed in 1971, and given its ...