Circle, Alaska

• Joshua Cadzow wins Yukon Quest Rookie of the Year award
  

  Emmitt Peters, Lance Mackey and Joshua Cadzow posed for a photo at the Yukon Quest finish line.

• Dog handlers have just as hard a quest as mushers
  

  It's hard to say who had a tougher ride to Dawson City, Yukon Quest musher Kelley Griffin or her dog handler, Jo Ferrari.

• Helping Kenai Peninsula get fit
  

  Ninilchik Health and Wellness Club celebrated its new location and expanded offerings with an open house Jan.

• Sitka Local Foods Network hosts gardening presentation
  

  The Sitka Local Foods Network will host a brief historical gardening presentation by Elizabeth Kunibe, "Growing in Sitka and Southeast Alaska: Food of Today, Tomorrow and 200 Years Ago," at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct.

City Description

Circle (also called Circle City) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 100. Circle is 260 km (162 miles) northeast of Fairbanks at the end of the Steese Highway. Circle was named by miners in the late 1800s who believed that the town was on the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Circle is actually about 80 km (50 miles) north of Circle. Circle is also the unofficial northern terminus of the Pan-American Highway. Every February, Circle City hosts a checkpoint for the long-distance Yukon Quest sled dog race. Circle is located at 65°50′4″N 144°4′35″W / 65.83444°N 144.07639°W / 65.83444; -144.07639 (65.834464, -144.076392). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 108.2 square miles (280.3 km²), of which, 107.7 square miles (278.9 km²) of it is land and 0.5 square miles (1.4 km²) of it (0.50%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 100 people, 34 households, and 22 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 0.9 people per square mile (0.4/km²). There were 42 housing units at an average density of 0.4/sq mi (0.2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was

City Contained By:

• Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
• Alaska
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 280.236713538 km squared

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