Home > Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Prudhoe Bay is a census-designated place located in North Slope Borough, Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the CDP is 5. According to the United States Census Bureau, it is one of only 8 places in the United States with a population of five people. The others are Storrie, California, Bear Head Lake, Minnesota, Baker, Missouri, Gross, Nebraska, Odell Township, New Hampshire, Maza, North Dakota, and Somerset, Vermont.Despite the low census figures, Prudhoe Bay is actually quite a busy place; at any moment, there are several thousand temporary workers running the Prudhoe Bay oil field or supporting it in some way. The airport, lodging, and general store are clustered in a location called Deadhorse, while the rigs and processing facilities are located on scattered gravel "pads" laid on top of the tundra. Winter is just as busy as summer, since only at that time is the surface hard enough to support heavy equipment, and so all new construction happens then.
A small number of tourists, many arriving by bus after a two-day ride up the Dalton HighwayArctic Circle and Coldfoot. The Dalton Highway is a 666 km (414 mile) long road that begins north of Fairbanks, Alaska, at a junction with the Elliott Highway and terminates near the Arctic Ocean in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Once known as the Haul Road it was from FairbanksFairbanks is a city located in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 30,224 and the population of the entire Borough numbers approximately 83,000. Fairbanks is the largest city in the int, come to see the tundra, the Arctic OceanThe Arctic Ocean located entirely in the north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean), and the shallowest. It occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an are, and the midnight sunNordkapp, Norway The midnight sun is a phenomenon, occurring in latitudes north of the arctic circle and south of the antarctic circle, where the sun is visible during at least 24 hours. Since there are no permanent human settlements south of the antarcti, staying in extremely basic lodgings assembled from "modular" buildings.
1 Geography
Prudhoe Bay is located at 70°19'32" North, 148°42'41" West (70.325490, -148.711387) 1The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. These sources are cited within the thousands of articles which link to this page..
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1,445.3 kmē (558.0 miēThis article is about the unit of measure. In England, the Square Mile is a traditional name for the City of London. A square mile (symbol sq. or mi is an imperial unit which is the area of a square whose side is one mile (or 5,280 feet). A square mile is). 1,078.1 kmē (416.3 miē) of it is land and 367.2 kmē (141.8 miē) of it is water. The total area is 25.40% water.
2 Demographics
As of the census 2 of 2000, there is one household in the town, consisting of one married couple between 25 and 44 and two boys and one girl under 18; the median age of the family is 12 years. One person is White, one is Native American, and three from two or more races. The income for this household is $90,957, or $19,880 per capita. The population density is 0.0/kmē. There is 1 housing unit.
