Alaska

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Boroughs/Census Areas • Links to State Resources Background

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Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867, with essentially its present boundaries. It was made a territory in 1912 and admitted as a State on January 3, 1959.

Federal Census Summary

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Census coverage of Alaska began in 1880. For the censuses of 1930 and 1940, Alaska actually was enumerated in the fall of the preceding year (1929, 1939).

1790: ---	1800: ---	1810: --	1820: ---
1830: ---	1840: ---	1850: ---	1860: ---
1870: ---	1880: 33,426	1890: 32,052	1900: 63,592
1910: 64,356	1920: 55,036	1930: 59,278	1940: 72,524
1950: 128,643	1960: 226,167	1970: 300,382	1980: 401,851
1990: 550,043	2000: 626,932

Boroughs/Census Areas
Aleutians East Borough Aleutians West Census Area Anchorage Borough Angoon Bethel Census Area Bristol Bay Borough Cordova-McCarthy Denali Borough Dillingham Census Area Fairbanks North Star Borough Haines Borough	Juneau Borough Kenai Peninsula Borough Ketchikan Gateway Borough Kodiak Island Borough Kuskokwim Lake and Peninsula Borough Lynn Canal-Icy Straits Matanuska-Susitna Borough Nome Census Area North Slope Borough	Northwest Arctic Borough Outer Ketchikan Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area Seward Sitka Borough Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area Southeast Fairbanks Census Area Upper Yukon Valdez-Cordova Census Area	Wade Hampton Census Area Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area Yakutat City and Borough Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area First Judicial Division Second Judicial Division Third Judicial Division Fourth Judicial Division Northern District Southern District

State Resources

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Genealogy Trails - Finding Ancestors wherever their trails led
... informed of our state and county website ... the Trail.... Our Website Updates State Sites Available for Hosting ...
http://genealogytrails.com/

State Projects Page
State Projects Page State Tombstone Transcription Projects Alabama Carolyn ... charge of your state to arrange sending ...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/registry.html

Genealogy Trails State Adoption List
... Genealogy Trails State Adoption List     STATE HOST LIST AND STATE ... Available for Adoption   Alaska Available for Adoption ...
http://genealogytrails.com/main/adoption.html

Alaskan Climate History
... HomePage Return to Alaska Climate Research Center The ... funded by the State of ...
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/history/History.html

U.S. state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... part of any state) that were organized (given a ... to write a state constitution. Upon acceptance of ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state

A L A S K A   G E N E A L O G Y .... The ALHN Alaska Project
... a resident can possess. Alaska has lush rain-drenched forests ... here . I am Colleen Pustola, State Coordinator for this ...
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ak/state/index.html

The Political Graveyard: Miscellaneous Areas, Alaska
... site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates ... in all 50 states, state and national political ...
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ZZ.html

National Register of Historical Places
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http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/state.html

Alaska State Museums
Alaska State Museums Home Division EED State ... Link to Museums Alaska State of
http://www.museums.state.ak.us/

Find Alaska public records, including county property records and birth records
... Borough of Yakutat   Alaska State Info: Alaska State Flag Number of Counties ... Archives Website: http://www.archives.state ...
http://www.findcountyrecords.com/states/Alaska

 

References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.