Swift River (Yukon)

Swift River is a place in the Yukon river of the same.

It is located directly on the Alaska Highway on the border with British Columbia. 2006, the place had 10 inhabitants who lived in five households.

1923, the Northwest Territories and Yukon Radio System has been set up to improve communications in Whitehorse. In 1941, a first AERadio Range Navigation station in Teslin, later in Swift River. These stations were first aircraft navigation for the support of the Soviet Union; whole, oriented 8100 aircraft to their signals. The messages were gemorst. Similar stations were in Beaton River, Aishihik, and Snag. This radio system existed until 1955.

The founder of the Yukon Airways and Exploration Company, Clyde When, who was the first regular postal service resumed in 1927 by plane, was also the owner of several lodges, one of which is located in Swift River.

With the expansion of the Alaska Highway originated in the sparsely populated region abruptly large camps, where numerous street workers lived. 1942 lived around 5000 people in Swift River for a short time.

1993 led to a lodge, were offered in the accommodation and food. However, in 2004 examined the health authority, the antiseptic tanks for water heating and then said the owners of the hotel and restaurant business. Corresponding tanks they could not build on its only 0.5 hectares of land, the only alternative would have been to build the new restaurant. Since this was prohibitively expensive for the owners, they had to close her house in 2009. This is also the only gas station open all year round between Watson Lake and Teslin disappears (you can see from the Rancheria Lodge from ), the former is 160 km to the south, the latter 112 km north of Swift River. Similar problems the Bear Creek Lodge had outside of Haines Junction, which had to give up the 74 -year-old Gail Jeeves, the Kluane Lake Wilderness Lodge, and the Lodge Koidern had to close the restaurant and the motel.

Near the settlement was found in 1997 andradite, which belongs to the garnet group, an important group of rock-forming minerals from the class of silicates. The largest topaz found there had a length of 5 cm.