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About Fairbanks

Fairbanks is a domestic rule town and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough inside the U.S. Kingdom of Alaska. Fairbanks is the biggest metropolis within the Interior location of Alaska. 2016 estimates positioned the populace of the metropolis right at 32,751, and the populace of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 100,605, making it the second one maximum populous metropolitan place in Alaska.

The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses all the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area within the United States, placed 196 driving miles south of the Arctic Circle. Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska device. Though there has been by no means a permanent Alaska Native settlement on the website of Fairbanks, Athabascan peoples have used the location for thousands of years.

An archaeological website online excavated at the grounds of the University of Alaska Fairbanks exposed a Native camp approximately 3,500 years old. From proof amassed at the site, archaeologists surmise that Native sports within the location were constrained to seasonal searching and fishing. In addition, archeological websites on the grounds of nearby Fort Wainwright date returned 10,000 years. Arrowheads excavated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks website online matched similar objects located in Asia, providing some of the first proof that people arrived in North America via the land bridge.

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