Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Census area
- Yukon-Koyukuk
- Incorporated
- June 7, 1961
- Mayor
- Donna Folger
- State senator
- Click Bishop ( R )
- State rep
- Mike Cronk (R)
- Total
- 15.00 sq mi (38.84 km )
- Land
- 10.67 sq mi (27.64 km )
- Water
- 4.33 sq mi (11.21 km )
- Elevation
- 207 ft (63 m)
- Density
- 23/sq mi (8.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
- Fips code
- 02-75160
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Tanana
- Population
- 246
- Area
- 40.620621
- Elevation
- 63
- Image
- PostcardTananaAlaska1910.jpg
- Households
- 67
- Licence plate code
- 907
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- Commons category
- Tanana, Alaska
- native label
- Hohudodetlaatl Denh
- postal code
- 99777
- inception
- 1961-06-07
- water as percent of area
- 29.6045
- water area
- 12.025527
- mean age
- 20.5
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Postcard: Front Street, Tanana, 1910 Tanana /ˈtænənɑː/ (Hohudodetlaatl Denh in Koyukon) is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, Tanana had a population of 246. It was formerly known as Clachotin, adopted by Canadian French.
Jules Jetté (1864–1927), a Jesuit missionary who worked in the area and documented the language, recorded the Koyukon Athabascan name for the village as Hohudodetlaatl Denh, literally, ‘where the area has been chopped’. Several residents are chronicled in the 2012 Discovery Channel TV series Yukon Men. Almost 80% of the town's population are Native Americans, traditionally Koyukon (Denaakk'e) speakers of the large Athabaskan (Dené) language family.