Copper Center, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States
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- Copper Center
- Unincorporated Populated Place
- On the Klutina River, 1 mi W of its jucntion with the Copper River and 66 mi NE of Valdez, Copper River Basin.
- A trading post was located here about 1896. The village began as a mining camp when about 300 prospectors wintered here in 1898-99. With the establishment of a telegraph station by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about 1901, the village, being on the Fairbanks-Valdez trail, became the principal settlement and supply center in the Nelchina-Susitna Region. Its population was 91 in 1910; 71 in 1920; 80 in 1930; 138 in 1939; 90 in 1950, and 151 in 1960.
- 61.976959861° 58' 37.1"N-145.3297294145° 19' 47.0"W
- Copperville 5.5 mi. NW
- Tazlina 6.5 mi. NW
- Willow Creek 11.5 mi. S
- Glennallen 11.5 mi. NW
- (none listed within 15 mi.)
- 345
- 317 m
- 194360156
- Updated Apr 19, 2020