Even by Alaska standards, Nome is remote, with no roads connecting it to the state’s population hubs hundreds of miles away. Supplies for its 3,600 residents have to be flown in or brought up by ...

The Alaska Department of Public Safety said ... Unalakleet has a population of about 800, according to U.S. Census data. Nome, with a population of about 10,000, is best known as the ending ...

Roughly half of Alaska's population was comprised of white settlers ... creating cities near gold strikes, including Nome and Fairbanks. In addition to the mining industry, settlers were reaping ...