North Pole, Alaska
North Pole is a city in Alaska. It is hundreds of miles from the actual North Pole, which is under the Arctic Ocean and very hard to get to. The town of North Pole is about 15 miles (24 km) from Fairbanks, the only big city in the Interior of Alaska. At first it was just a small settlement called "Davis" with a stop on the Alaska Railroad.
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 Location of North Pole in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska | |
| Coordinates: 64°45′4″N 147°21′7″W / 64.75111°N 147.35194°WCoordinates: 64°45′4″N 147°21′7″W / 64.75111°N 147.35194°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Chandra Clack[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.099 sq mi (10.62 km2) |
| • Land | 4.085 sq mi (10.58 km2) |
| • Water | 0.014 sq mi (0.04 km2) |
| Population (2020)[3] | |
| • Total | 2,243 |
| Website | www |
The first people to form a local government there decided to call it North Pole. Soon a trading post that had been opened there became a Christmas themed shop called the Santa Claus House and was a big attraction for tourists who came to Alaska. The city's mayor pro tem was city council member Santa Claus.[4]
North Pole, Alaska Media
Frequently photographed "Welcome to North Pole" sign at the eastern end of Fifth Avenue, near its intersection with the Richardson Highway.
Main exit to North Pole off the Richardson Highway. Badger Road, a loop road off the Richardson between Fairbanks and North Pole, was named for Harry Markley Badger (1869–1965), a pioneer Fairbanks resident who established a farm along the road. Inside North Pole city limits, the road becomes Santa Claus Lane, one of many Christmas-themed streets in the city.
Beaver Lake in North Pole, AK
Climate chart for North Pole
Santa Claus (his legal name, born Thomas O'Connor) was first elected to North Pole's city council in 2015. He appears with a group of children who protested United States immigration policy in downtown Fairbanks in June 2018.
The Santa Claus House is a local landmark.
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References
- ↑ "Office of the Mayor | City of Northpole Alaska". Retrieved September 5, 2024.
- ↑ "2021 Gazetteer Places Files - Alaska". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ↑ "North Pole city, Alaska - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ↑ "Meet Santa Claus, North Pole politician and medical marijuana advocate". the Guardian. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
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