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473
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$40,833
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America/Anchorage
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Fort Yukon, AK - History
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Welcome to the Fort Yukon Home page. The Fort Yukon Home page provides as much information as possible on Fort Yukon. Knowing Fort Yukon’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fort Yukon’s Home page, you will also find Fort Yukon’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Fort Yukon has a population of 473. 53.5% of Fort Yukon’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.5 are female. 27.9% of Fort Yukon is married and 75.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $94,633, and the average rent is $1,013. Household median income in Fort Yukon is $40,833, and the individual median income is $22,396. Fort Yukon’s Ethnic is the following: Native(73.8%), White(11.8%), Multiple(10.6%), Asian(3.8%).
This area north of the Arctic Circle was occupied for thousands of years by cultures of indigenous people and in historic times by the Gwich’in people. Gwich'yaa Zhee means "House on the Flats" in Gwichʼin.What became the village of Fort Yukon developed from a trading post, Fort Yukon, established by Alexander Hunter Murray of the Hudson's Bay Company, on 25 June 1847.
Murray drew numerous sketches of fur trade posts and of people and wrote the Journal of the Yukon, 1847–48, which gave valuable insight into the culture of the Gwich’in at the time. While the post was in Russian America, the Hudson's Bay Company continued to trade there until the American traders expelled it in 1869, following the Alaska Purchase when the Alaska Commercial Company took over the post. During the Klondike Gold Rush, in the winter of 1897–1898, Fort Yukon received two hundred prospectors from Dawson City, which was short of supply.
A post office was established on July 12, 1898, with John Hawksly as its first postmaster. The settlement suffered over the following decades as a result of several infectious disease epidemics and a 1949 flood. During the 1950s, the United States Air Force established a base and radar station at Fort Yukon; the town was officially incorporated in 1959.
Since the late 20th century, due in part to its extreme northerly location and its proximity to Fairbanks, it has become a minor tourist destination. On February 7, 1984, a Terrier Malemute-type sounding rocket, with a maximum altitude of 310 miles (500 km), was launched from Fort Yukon.
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