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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.
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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
[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 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 ...
Delta Junction: 259.28: 417.27: AK-4 south (Richardson Highway) Northern terminus of Alaska Route 4; northern terminus of the Alaska Highway: Tok: 366.91: 590.48: AK-1 west (Tok Cut-Off Highway) – Glennallen, Anchorage: Northern terminus of Alaska Route 1: Tetlin Junction: 379.36: 610.52: AK-5 north (Taylor Highway) Southern terminus of ...
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 ...
Fort Greely is located at (63.905016, -145.554566 Fort Greely is located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Delta Junction on the Richardson Highway.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 169.7 square miles (440 km 2). 169.4 square miles (439 km 2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) of it (0.21%) is water.