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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Borough
- Northwest Arctic
- Incorporated
- October 28, 1970
- Mayor
- Kevin Moto, Sr.
- State senator
- Donny Olson ( D )
- State rep
- Robyn Burke ( D )
- Total
- 5.09 sq mi (13.18 km )
- Land
- 5.02 sq mi (12.99 km )
- Water
- 0.073 sq mi (0.19 km )
- Elevation
- 6.6 ft (2 m)
- Density
- 36.3/sq mi (14.01/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
- Fips code
- 02-18510
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Deering
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Population
- 182
- Area
- 4.0574
- Elevation
- 2
- Official website
- nana.com/regional/about-us/overview-of-region/deering
- Image
- Deering Community (16349441556).jpg
- Households
- 1567
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- Commons category
- Deering, Alaska
- water area
- 0.417369
- postal code
- 99736
- water as percent of area
- 10.2866
- P8168
- Olivia Munn
- date of incorporation
- 1970-10-28
- per capita income
- 25034
- mean age
- 51.0
- native label
- Ipnatchiaq / Ipnasiaq
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Encyclopedic overview
Deering (Inupiaq: Ipnatchiaq or Ipnasiaq) is a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on a sandy spit on the Seward Peninsula where the Inmachuk River flows into Kotzebue Sound, 92 km (57 mi) southwest of Kotzebue.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 182, up from 136 in 2000. As of 2003, the city includes a community hall, a clinic run by the U.S. Public Health Service, a post office, a church, two stores, and a National Guard armory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deering” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.