McCarthy
McCarthy is a census-designated place in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The population was 107 at the 2020 census, up from 28 in 2010.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Eric Spenle, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 28 residents
- Description: Small community in southeast Alaska
- Also known as: “McCarthy, AK”, “McCarthy, Alaska”, and “Shushanna Junction”
Places of Interest
Highlights include McCarthy Airport.
McCarthy Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
McCarthy Airport is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile northeast of the central business district of McCarthy, in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kennecott.
Kennecott
Hamlet
Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines.
McCarthy
Latitude
61.4612° or 61° 27′ 40″ northLongitude
-142.8857° or 142° 53′ 9″ westPopulation
28Elevation
1,398 feet (426 metres)IATA airport code
MXYOpen location code
93HVF467+FPOpenStreetMap ID
way 32984706OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Mari—“McCarthy” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “McCarthy”
- Chechen: “Маккарти”
- Chinese: “McCarthy”
- Chinese: “麥卡錫”
- Chinese: “麦卡锡”
- Dutch: “McCarthy”
- French: “McCarthy”
- German: “McCarthy”
- Gilaki: “مککارتی”
- Hungarian: “McCarthy”
- Irish: “McCarthy”
- Italian: “McCarthy”
- Japanese: “マッカーシー”
- Min Nan Chinese: “McCarthy”
- Newari: “मिककार्थी (अलास्का)”
- Newari: “मिककार्थी, अलास्का”
- Newari: “मिककार्थी”
- Persian: “مککارتی، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “مککارتی”
- Portuguese: “McCarthy”
- Russian: “Мак-Карти”
- Russian: “Маккарти”
- Serbian: “Макарти”
- Serbo-Croatian: “McCarthy, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “McCarthy”
- South Azerbaijani: “مککارتی، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “مککارتی”
- Spanish: “McCarthy, Alaska”
- Spanish: “McCarthy”
- Tatar: “Маккарти”
- Ukrainian: “Маккарті”
- Volapük: “McCarthy”
- Western Mari: “МакКарти”
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