Eagle (Tthee T’äwdlenn in Hän Athabascan[4]) is a village on the south bank of the Yukon River, near the Canada–US border in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area in Alaska, United States.

Every February, Eagle hosts a checkpoint for the long-distance Yukon Quest sled dog race.

Like most of Alaska, Eagle has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) with long, severely cold, dry winters occasionally moderated by chinook winds, and short, warm summers.

For thousands of years prior to Europeans arriving in Alaska, the Eagle area was home to many indigenous peoples, including the Han.

The first known American-built[clarification needed] structure in Eagle was a log trading post called "Belle Isle", erected around 1874.

Subsequently, in the late 1800s, Eagle became a supply and trading center for miners working the upper Yukon River and its tributaries.

By the year 1898, Eagle's population had exceeded 1,700 persons; many newcomers journeyed to the area with word of the Klondike Gold Rush.

The town enjoyed some notoriety, as the setting of John McPhee's book Coming into the Country, first published in 1977 and becoming quite popular.

In the 1970s high school-aged children took correspondence courses from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with a local resident supervising their work.

[16] Over 100 buildings from this era survive including the Federal courthouse[15] which was funded by fines enacted against the rowdy inhabitants.