Eagle Village, Alaska

Eagle Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States.

[3] Ice dams formed on the river, and the waters flooded behind them, destroying much of the old village.

The Eagle area has been the historical home to Han people since before the arrival of Europeans in Alaska.

[4] Eagle Village was called Johnny's in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by some people, after its chief at the time, known as John in English.

Eagle Village is located at 64°46′53″N 141°6′53″W / 64.78139°N 141.11472°W / 64.78139; -141.11472 (64.781324, -141.114728)[5] at the end of the Taylor Highway, next to Eagle on the Yukon River, in a straight line about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of the border between Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada at the 141st meridian west.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 19.1 square miles (49 km2), all of it land.

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area map