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Copper Center is located at (61.965305, -145.318280), [5] on the Richardson Highway (Alaska Route 4), on the west bank of the Copper River, at the confluence with the Klutina It is about 16 miles southeast of Glennallen , which is on the Glenn Highway (part of Alaska Route 1 ) just west of Route 4.
Copper Center Airport has one runway designated 13/31 with a gravel surface measuring 2,200 by 55 feet (671 x 17 m). [1]For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,200 aircraft operations, an average of 100 per month: 92% general aviation and 8% air taxi.
The Native Village of Kluti-Kaah is an Alaska federally recognized Alaska Native tribal entity located in Copper Center, Alaska. The village is primarily made up of the Ahtna Athabaskan people, who have been in the Copper River basin from time immemorial.
Copper River Census Area is a census area located in the state of Alaska, United States. It is part of the Unorganized Borough and therefore has no borough seat . On January 2, 2019, it was split from the Valdez–Cordova Census Area , along with neighboring Chugach Census Area .
Eight villages are contained within the Ahtna region, including Cantwell, Chistochina, Chitina, Gakona, Gulkana, Mentasta, the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah (Copper Center), and Tazlina. Under the terms of ANCSA, 714,240 acres (2,890 km 2) of land surrounding the villages were allocated to the village corporations established for those villages.
The Edgerton Highway is a minor highway in the U.S. state of Alaska that extends 33 miles (53 km) from the Richardson Highway near Copper Center to the town of Chitina. The McCarthy Road, within the Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, is a 58-mile (93 km) extension from Chitina to McCarthy. [1]
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in south central Alaska.The park, the largest in the United States, covers the Wrangell Mountains and a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the ...
The Copper River Delta, which extends for 700,000 acres (2,800 km 2), is the largest contiguous wetlands along the Pacific coast of North America. [ 13 ] [ 15 ] It is used annually by 16 million shorebirds, including the world's entire population of western sandpipers and the pacific flyway population of dunlins . [ 29 ]