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The roads in Utqiagvik are unpaved due to the permafrost. No roads connect the city to the rest of Alaska. [76] Utqiagvik is served by Alaska Airlines with passenger jet service at the Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport to and from Anchorage and Fairbanks. New service between Fairbanks and Anchorage began from Era Aviation on June 1, 2009.
The Minnesota Drive Expressway was first created circa 1950, when the Spenard Road was built in the location of the current highway. [9] By 1962, a highway existed from the northern terminus southward to Dimond Boulevard. [10] By 1983, most portions of the highway had been created, [11] and by 1985, the highway had been fully completed.
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 ]
Named the Geist Road Extension for most of its planning period, the highway was named in 1988 in honor of Hendryx Woodrow "Woody" Johansen (1913–1991). [2] Johansen was a professor of civil engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and an employee of the Alaska Road Commission and the Alaska Department of Highways. [3]
It was founded as a trading post alongside the Richardson Highway in 1952 by Con and Nellie Miller, shortly after North Pole itself was founded by real estate developer Everett Dahl. [1] [2] The Santa Claus House served as North Pole's post office from its inception through the early 1970s. Around that same time, the business was relocated ...
House District 1 was created by the Alaska Redistricting Board's Amended Proclamation Plan in 2012. [3] Isaacson won the District 1 four-way August 28, 2012 Republican Primary with 770 votes (34.09%), [4] and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 5,428 votes (77.43%) against Democratic nominee Janice Golub.
Nome City School District: 1 Nome Census Area Nondalton: 1 Lake and Peninsula Borough: 99640 Noorvik: 1 Northwest Arctic Borough: 99763 Northeast Cape: 1 Nome Census Area North Kenai: 1 Kenai Peninsula Borough: 99611 North Nenana: 1 Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area North Pole: 1 Fairbanks North Star Borough: 99705 North Slope: 1 North Slope Borough
NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. (NANA) is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. NANA was incorporated in Alaska on June 7, 1972. [1] NANA is a for-profit corporation with a land base in the Kotzebue area in northwest ...