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2,969
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$81,491
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America/Anchorage
99705
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North Pole, AK - History
We would like to provide the residents of North Pole a basic history overview.
Welcome to the North Pole Home page. The North Pole Home page provides as much information as possible on North Pole. Knowing North Pole’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within North Pole’s Home page, you will also find North Pole’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
North Pole has a population of 2969. 54% of North Pole’s inhabitants are Male, and 46 are female. 60.4% of North Pole is married and 47.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $222,453, and the average rent is $1,134. Household median income in North Pole is $81,491, and the individual median income is $43,460. North Pole’s Ethnic is the following: White(78.3%), Hispanic(11.6%), Multiple(9.6%), Black(6.2%), Native(4.1%), Asian(1.4%), Other(0.3%).
The city is a summertime attraction for tourists visiting nearby Fairbanks and, due to its location on the Richardson Highway, those traveling to and from the Alaska Highway and Valdez. North Pole was home to two oil refineries, the town's major industry aside from tourism, but closed because of sulfolane contamination in groundwater.
The larger refinery, operated by Flint Hills Resources, was a major source of jet fuel for Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Tanker car traffic on the Alaska Railroad, entering and leaving the refinery, frequently bisects the city. North Pole's biggest attraction is a gift shop named Santa Claus House, the modern-day incarnation of a trading post (gift shop) established in the town's early days.
The Santa Claus House is known for the world's largest fiberglass statue of Santa Claus outside. A small group of domesticated reindeer are just outside. Before Christmas each year, the USPS post office in North Pole receives hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa Claus, and thousands more from people wanting the town's postmark on their Christmas greeting cards to their families.
It advertises the ZIP code 99705 as the ZIP code of Santa. A community program also responds to letters addressed to 1 Santa Claus Lane.Christmas-themed streets in North Pole include Santa Claus Lane, St. Nicholas Drive, Snowman Lane, and Kris Kringle Drive. Street lights in the city are decorated in a candy cane motif, and many local businesses have similar decorations.
The city's firetrucks and ambulances are all red, while the police cars are green and white. The city also has an all-female flat-track Roller Derby league, the North Pole Babes in Toyland (NPBT), whose athletes have Christmas and North Pole-inspired Skater names. North Pole has some of the least expensive residential real estate in Alaska; the median home price there is $211,184.
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