Fort Yukon, Alaska

Unorganized Borough

02-26760

Fort Yukon is a small city in the Yukon - Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to the census in 2000, 595 people live here.

Fort Yukon is the hometown of Don Young, Alaska's deputies in the House of Representatives of the United States. The city has an airport, the Fort Yukon Airport.

Here was also the highest temperature ever reached in Alaska measured. On 27 June 1915, the thermometer rose to 38 ° C.

History

Fort Yukon was founded in 1847 as a British settlement on Russian territory. She was until 1869 a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company. After the sale of Alaska to the United States it was adopted by the Alaska Commercial Company. On 12 July 1898, the Post opened here a department which John Hawksly initiated. In the following decades, but the settlement suffered several epidemics and a devastating flood in 1949.

In the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force in Fort Yukon, built a base and a radar station. Fort Yukon was officially declared a town in 1959.

Geography

The city is located 13 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle at the confluence of the Yukon River and the Porcupine.

Demography

According to a survey of 2,000 live in the town of 595 people, there are 225 households and 137 families. The population density is 32.8 people per km2. 10.76 % of the population are white, 0.17 % are African American, 86.05 % Native American, 0.17 % Asian, 0.17 % Other, 2.69% are mixed race. 1.34% are Hispanic or Latino.

Of the 225 households 36.0% have children under 18 years. 25.8 % are married couples, 23.1% are single mothers and 39.1% are unmarried couples. 34.2 % of all households are single, 5.8% are single elderly people over 65, the average household size is 2.62 and the Durchschnittssfamiliengröße 3.37 persons.

33.4 % of the population is under 18 years old, 10.3 % from 18 to 24, 27.4 % from 25 to 44, 22.0% 44-64, 6.9% over 65 years. The average age is 32 The ratio between women and men is 100:112,5. For over 18 years, the ratio 100:111,8.

The average annual income is $ 29,375, and the median income for a family $ 32,083. Males have a median income of $ 25,000, women $ 27,813. 18.5 % of the population and 18 % of families live in poverty. Of these, 14.3 % had children under age 18 and 3.5% of people older than 65

  • Location in Alaska
  • Location in North America
  • Unorganized Borough
  • Yukon - Koyukuk Census Area
List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska Unorganized Borough, Alaska Federal Information Processing Standards Census tract Porcupine River
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