Bethel (Alaska)

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Location in Alaska
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Basic data
Foundation :	August 1957
State :	United States
State :	Alaska
Borough :	Unorganized Borough
Coordinates :	60 ° 47 ′ N , 161 ° 47 ′ W Coordinates: 60 ° 47 ′ N , 161 ° 47 ′ W
Time zone :	Alaska ( UTC − 9 / −8 )
Residents :	6,080 (as of 2010)
Population density :	53.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	126.7 km 2 (approx. 49 mi 2 ) of; which 113.4 km 2 (approx. 44 mi 2 ) are land
Postal code :	99559
Area code :	+1 907
FIPS :	02-06520
GNIS ID :	1398908
Website :	www.cityofbethel.org
Mayor :	Dan Leinberger

Bethel is a city in the US state of Alaska on the Kuskokwim River in the Bethel Census Area and is located in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge . At the 2010 US census , the population was 6,080. The United States Census Bureau estimates the population as of July 1, 2017 at 6,456. It is the administrative center for the 56 settlements in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta .

history

At the site of today's Bethel there was a Yupik settlement called Mamterillermiut . At the end of the 19th century, the Alaska Commercial Company established a trading post . In 1880 the place had 41 inhabitants. In 1885 a Christian mission was established there by the Moravian Church . The missionaries moved the site to the west side of the Kuskokwim River. In 1905 a post office opened.

Infrastructure

Bethel Airport is state-owned and served by six passenger and five cargo airlines. In terms of the number of flights, Bethel Airport is the third largest in Alaska.

There are about 16 miles of official roads in Bethel that are not connected to a national road network.

Name variants

The city has a few different names:

Mamterilleq
Mamtrelich
Mumtreekhlagamute
Mumtrekhlagamute
Mumtrekkhlogamute
Mumtrelega
Mummy legacy
Uuyarmiut

Web links

Commons : Bethel - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Quickfacts: Bethel (city), Alaska (English)
^ ^A ^b Jacobson, Steven A., compiler. Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary. 31-Dec-1984. Alaska Native Language Center
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library. p128

[1] Quickfacts: Bethel (city), Alaska (English)

[autogenerated1-2] A ^b Jacobson, Steven A., compiler. Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary. 31-Dec-1984. Alaska Native Language Center

[autogenerated2-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library. p128