Nenana
Also known as Nenana, Alaska, Nenana, AK
city in Alaska, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Census area
- Yukon-Koyukuk
- Incorporated
- November 17, 1921
- Mayor
- Joshua K Verhagen
- State senator
- Mike Cronk ( R )
- State rep
- Rebecca Schwanke (R)
- Total
- 6.25 sq mi (16.18 km )
- Land
- 5.95 sq mi (15.42 km )
- Water
- 0.29 sq mi (0.76 km )
- Elevation
- 351 ft (107 m)
- Density
- 60.1/sq mi (23.22/km )
- Time zone
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Article
Nenana /nɛˈnænə/ (Lower Tanana: Toghotili) is a home rule city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the Unorganized Borough in Interior Alaska. Nenana developed as a Lower Tanana community at the confluence where the tributary Nenana River enters the Tanana. As of the 2020 census, Nenana had a population of 358.
Completed in 1923, the 700-foot-long (210 m) Mears Memorial Bridge was built over the Tanana River as part of the territory's railroad project connecting Anchorage and Fairbanks.
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