Fort Yukon

Fort Yukon is a village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of , straddling the Arctic Circle. The population, predominantly Gwichʼin Alaska Natives, was 428 at the 2020 census, down from 595 in 2000.
Wikipedia
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Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
  • Type: Village with 534 residents
  • Description: city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Fort Yukon Village”, “Fort Yukon, Alaska”, and “Gwichyaa Zhee”
  • Postal code: 99740

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Yukon Airport and Fort Yukon Long Range Radar Site.

Aerodrome
Photo: madpai, CC BY 2.0.
is a state-owned public-use located in the city of Fort Yukon, in the of the U.S. state of .

Military installation
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is a radar site of the United States Air Force. It is located 1.6 miles east-southeast of Fort Yukon, Alaska. It was the former Fort Yukon Air Force Station, a General Surveillance Radar station. is situated 2 miles east of Fort Yukon.

Fort Yukon

Latitude
66.56472° or 66° 33′ 53″ north
Longitude
-145.27389° or 145° 16′ 26″ west
Population
534
Elevation
427 feet (130 metres)
IATA airport code
FYU
United Nations Location Code
US FYU
Open location code
93RPHP7G+VC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150920388
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5862371
Wiki­data ID
Q79408
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Satellite Map

Discover Fort Yukon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Fort Yukon” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Fort Yukon, Alaska”
  • Albanian: “Fort Yukon”
  • Arabic: “فورت يوكون”
  • Basque: “Fort Yukon”
  • Basque: “Gwichyaa Zheh”
  • Catalan: “Fort Yukon”
  • Cebuano: “Fort Yukon”
  • Central Kurdish: “فۆرت یووکۆن، ئالاسکا”
  • Chamorro: “Fort Yukon”
  • Chechen: “Форт-Юкон”
  • Chinese: “Fort Yukon”
  • Chinese: “育空堡”
  • Czech: “Fort Yukon”
  • Danish: “Fort Yukon”
  • Dutch: “Fort Yukon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فورت يوكون”
  • Estonian: “Fort Yukon”
  • Finnish: “Fort Yukon”
  • French: “Fort Yukon”
  • Galician: “Fort Yukon”
  • German: “Fort Yukon”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرت یوکان”
  • Haitian: “Fort Yukon”
  • Irish: “Fort Yukon”
  • Italian: “Fort Yukon”
  • Japanese: “フォートユーコン”
  • Ladin: “Fort Yukon”
  • Malagasy: “Fort Yukon, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Fort Yukon”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോർട്ട് യൂക്കോൺ, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോർട്ട് യൂക്കോൺ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fort Yukon”
  • Newari: “फर्ट युकोन (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “फर्ट युकोन, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “फर्ट युकोन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Yukon”
  • Norwegian: “Fort Yukon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fort Yukon”
  • Persian: “فورت یوکان، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “فورت یوکان، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “فورت یوکان”
  • Polish: “Fort Yukon”
  • Portuguese: “Fort Yukon”
  • Russian: “Форт-Юкон”
  • Serbian: “Форт Јукон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Yukon, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Yukon”
  • Slovak: “Fort Yukon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورت یوکان، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورت یوکان”
  • Spanish: “Fort Yukon Alaska”
  • Spanish: “Fort Yukón Alaska”
  • Spanish: “Fort Yukon”
  • Spanish: “Fort Yukón”
  • Swedish: “Fort Yukon”
  • Talysh: “Fort Jukon”
  • Tatar: “Форт-Юкон”
  • Turkish: “Fort Yukon, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Fort Yukon”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Юкон”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ یوکن، الاسکا”
  • Uzbek: “Fort Yukon”
  • Volapük: “Fort Yukon”
  • Welsh: “Fort Yukon”
  • Western Mari: “Форт-Юкон”

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Notable Places Nearby

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