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British Royal Navy officers came to the area to explore and map the Arctic coastline of North America. The US acquired Alaska in 1867 by purchasing it from Russia. The United States Army established a meteorological and magnetic research station at Utqiagvik in 1881. [19] In 1888, a Presbyterian church was built by United States missionaries at ...
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
Area [11] Map Aleutians West Census Area: 016: Unalaska: Location in the western Aleutian Islands. 1.17 5,160: 4,393 sq mi (11,378 km 2) Bethel Census Area: 050: Bethel: City of Bethel, the largest settlement in the census area, which is itself named for the Biblical term Bethel ("house of God"). 0.45 18,224: 40,627 sq mi (105,223 km 2) Chugach ...
North Pole is a small city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Incorporated in 1953, it is part of the Fairbanks metropolitan statistical area . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 2,243, [ 2 ] up from 2,117 in 2010. [ 3 ]
A stretch of about 60 miles (100 km) of track along an area north of Talkeetna remains inaccessible by road; the railroad provides the only transportation to rural homes and cabins in the area. Until construction of the Parks Highway in the 1970s, the railroad provided the only land access to most of the region along its entire route.
Atqasuk is located at (70.477663, -157.418056), on the Meade [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.3 square miles (110 km 2), of which 38.9 square miles (101 km 2) is land and 3.5 square miles (9.1 km 2) (8.22%) is water.
Tazlina / t æ z ˈ l iː n ə / (Tezdlen Na’ [2] in Ahtna Athabascan) is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 244, down from 297 in 2010. [3]
It is 33 miles (53 km) north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's western coast. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.7 square miles (74 km 2), of which 27.0 square miles (70 km 2) is land, and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2), or 5.76%, is water.