3,283
40%
$87,000
21.4%
America/Nome
99752
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Kotzebue, AK - History
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Welcome to the Kotzebue Home page. The Kotzebue Home page provides as much information as possible on Kotzebue. Knowing Kotzebue’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kotzebue’s Home page, you will also find Kotzebue’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Kotzebue has a population of 3283. 56.1% of Kotzebue’s inhabitants are Male, and 43.9 are female. 31.9% of Kotzebue is married and 40.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $226,506, and the average rent is $1,461. Household median income in Kotzebue is $87,000, and the individual median income is $37,895. Kotzebue’s Ethnic is the following: Native(67.3%), White(19.9%), Multiple(7.9%), Hispanic(5.3%), Asian(2.5%), Black(1.9%), Other(0.5%).
In 1958, Kotzebue Air Force Station was completed. The radar site would be operated by on-site personnel until its deactivation in 1983 and the subsequent demolition of most of the station's structures. The radome continues to operate, but is now mostly unattended.In 1997, three 66-kw wind turbines were installed in Kotzebue, creating the northernmost wind farm in the United States.
Today, the wind farm consists of 19 turbines, including two 900 kW EWT turbines. The total installed capacity has reached 3-MW, displacing approximately 250,000 gallons of diesel fuel every year.On September 2, 2015, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech on global warming in Kotzebue, becoming the first sitting president to visit a site north of the Arctic Circle.Since 2016, the United States Coast Guard has deployed MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters to Kotzebue from the beginning of July to the end of October as part of Operation Arctic Shield.On December 3rd, 2018, Mike Dunleavy was sworn in as the 12th governor of Alaska in Kotzebue's high school gymnasium after inclement weather thwarted his plan to hold the ceremony in Noorvik.
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