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Deltana (Ukrainian: Делтана) is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 2,359, up from 2,251 in 2010. [2] Native inhabitants are Tanana Athabaskans.
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.
Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system, established in 1917. Fairbanks International Airport is located three miles (4.8 km) southwest of the central business district of the city; Fairbanks is the smallest city in the United States with regularly scheduled non-stop ...
Fairbanks North Star Borough: 090: Fairbanks: Second: 1964-Named for its borough seat of Fairbanks, named in turn for Charles Fairbanks (1852–1918), U.S. Senator from Indiana and vice president under Theodore Roosevelt, and for Polaris, the North Star: 12.93 94,840: 7,335 sq mi (18,998 km 2) Haines Borough: 100 (Consolidated city-borough ...
Rika's Landing Roadhouse, also known as Rika's Landing Site or the McCarty Roadhouse, is a roadhouse located at a historically important crossing of the Tanana River, in the Southeast Fairbanks Area, Alaska, United States.
The Richardson Highway is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska, running 368 miles (562 km) and connecting Valdez to Fairbanks. It is marked as Alaska Route 4 from Valdez to Delta Junction and as Alaska Route 2 from there to Fairbanks. It also connects segments of Alaska Route 1 between the Glenn Highway and the Tok Cut-Off. The Richardson ...
Fairbanks, a metropolitan area with about 100,000 residents in 2019, is a center of placer gold mining, which has continued in the basin since the mid-19th century. Limited farming also occurs in the valley near Fairbanks. [10] During World War II, it was proposed to resettle Finnish refugees in areas around the Tanana River (Operation Alaska ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Alaska, sorted by type and name. In 2023, Alaska had a total summer capacity of 2,821 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 6,717 GWh. [ 2 ]