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We would like to provide the residents of  Bettles  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Bettles Home page. The Bettles Home page provides as much information as possible on Bettles. Knowing Bettles’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bettles’s Home page, you will also find Bettles’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Bettles has a population of 2. 0% of Bettles’s inhabitants are Male, and 100 are female. 0% of Bettles is married and 100% own their own home. Bettles’s Ethnic is the following: Native(100%).


The original village was founded a mile southwest of the junction of the John & Koyukuk Rivers in the late 1890s during the Alaska Gold Rush and was named for Captain James Bettles of Valdez, a printer, prospector, and trader who established the trading post and community in 1898. A post office was established in 1901 and continued intermittently until 1956.


Residents began relocating 5 miles east to Evansville, where the airstrip that serves the community today was built in World War II and is now used for commercial air service. The Hickel Highway was used to transport equipment and supplies to the North Slope for oil exploration, and to build the Dalton Highway, which is now used as a truck route to the oilfields.


The old village was largely abandoned and the New Bettles was carved out of Evansville and was incorporated in 1985.


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