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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 ...
A portion of the Tanana Valley, as seen from the Parks Monument overlook of the George Parks Highway east of Ester.. The Tanana Valley is a lowland region in central Alaska in the United States, on the north side of the Alaska Range, where the Tanana River emerges from the mountains.
Affluent of the Nenana River in McKinley Park, Alaska. The Nenana River (Lower Tanana: Nina No’) is a tributary of the Tanana River, approximately 140 miles (230 km) long, in central Alaska in the United States. [3] It drains an area on the north slope of the Alaska Range on the south edge of the Tanana Valley southwest of Fairbanks. [4]
File:AK map Tanana river.svg. Add languages. Page contents not supported in other languages. ... Alaska map highlighting Tanana river: Date: 9 May 2010, 09:54 (UTC)
Nenana / n ɛ ˈ n æ n ə / (Lower Tanana: Toghotili; [4] is a home rule city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the Unorganized Borough in Interior Alaska.Nenana developed as a Lower Tanana community at the confluence where the tributary Nenana River enters the Tanana.
The Chena River (/ ˈ tʃ iː n ə /; Tanana Athabascan: Ch'eno' "river of something (game)") is a 100-mile (160 km) tributary of the Tanana River in the Interior region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows generally west from the White Mountains to the Tanana River near the city of Fairbanks, which is built on both sides of the river. [6]
Tanana is located at the confluence of the tributary Tanana and the Yukon River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.6 square miles (40 km 2), of which 11.6 square miles (30 km 2) of it is land and 4.0 square miles (10 km 2) of it (25.80%) is water. Tanana is about 130 miles (210 km) west of Fairbanks. [12]
The Kantishna River (Lower Tanana: Khenteethno) is a 108-mile (174 km) tributary of the Tanana River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [3] Formed by the confluence of the McKinley River with Birch Creek in Denali National Park and Preserve, it drains part of the north slope of the Alaska Range including the Denali massif. [4]