28 Facts About Fairbanks

Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U S state of Alaska.

Fairbanks is the largest and coldest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state.

Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system.

Arrowheads excavated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks site matched similar items found in Asia, providing some of the first evidence that humans arrived in North America via the Bering Strait land bridge in deep antiquity.

Teams of gold prospectors soon congregated in and around the newly founded Fairbanks; they built drift mines, dredges, and lode mines in addition to panning and sluicing.

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Fairbanks suffered from several floods in its first seven decades, whether from ice jams during spring breakup or heavy rainfall.

Fairbanks is in the central Tanana Valley, straddling the Chena River near its confluence with the Tanana River.

Fairbanks' climate is classified as humid continental closely bordering on a subarctic climate, with long cold winters and short warm summers.

Fairbanks is the coldest large city in the U S ; normal monthly mean temperatures range from -8.

The warmest calendar year in Fairbanks was 2019, when the average annual temperature was 32.

Fairbanks first appeared on the 1910 U S Census as an incorporated city.

Fairbanks has hosted many different skiing events including the 2003 Junior Olympic Cross Country Ski Championship and the 2008 and 2009 U S Cross Country Distance Nationals.

Fairbanks has an annual 50k race called the Sonot Kkaazoot and the Fairbanks Town Series races which consists of four different races.

The majority of Fairbanks is politically conservative, with three distinct geographical areas representing differing ideological views.

The state senators for the Fairbanks area are Democrat Scott Kawasaki and Republicans Robert Myers Jr.

Representatives for the Fairbanks area are Democrats Adam Wool and David Guttenberg, along with Republicans Bart LeBon, Steve M Thompson, and Mike Prax, appointed to fill the seat after Tammie Wilson resigned in early 2020 .

Downtown Fairbanks voted for Democrat Mark Begich in his campaigns for U S Senate and governor, and for independent Bill Walker as governor in 2014.

University of Alaska Fairbanks operates its own coal-fired generating station on campus, providing electricity and steam heat to university buildings.

In that year, the voters in the City of Fairbanks authorized the sale of FMUS, which included telephone, electrical, and sewer and water.

Alaska Communications had promised that Fairbanks was to be the corporate headquarters with a new building at the corner of Cushman St and 1st Avenue.

That changed as, in the process of acquiring the Fairbanks based telephone utility, the Anchorage Telephone Utility came up for sale, ACS purchased it and Anchorage became the headquarters for Alaska Communications Systems.

At Fairbanks' founding, the only way to reach the new city was via steamboat on the Chena River.

In 1942, the Alaska Highway connected the Richardson Highway to the Canadian road system, allowing road travel from the rest of the United States to Fairbanks, which is considered the unofficial end of the highway.

Fairbanks, which was owned first by Paul Greimann and later by Walt Conant, mainly linked downtown Fairbanks with the university campus and the military bases.

Fairbanks is the smallest city in the United States to be served by transatlantic flights, as Condor operates direct flight to Frankfurt in the summer tourist season.

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The rail yards of the Tanana Valley Railroad were converted for use by the Alaska Railroad, and Fairbanks became the northern end of the line and its second-largest depot.

From 1923 to 2004, the Alaska Railroad's Fairbanks terminal was in downtown Fairbanks, just north of the Chena River.

The railroad is planning an expansion of the rail line from Fairbanks to connect the city via rail with Delta Junction, about 100 miles southeast.