Jack Wade is an unincorporated community in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States.

[2] Founded as a mining camp around 1900, it was named for Jack Anderson and Wade Nelson, the original locators.

In 1936, the bucket line dredge working at Franklin was bought, dismantled and hauled by horses over the ice to Jack Wade Creek by the Yukon Placer Mining Co., which owned the claims.

In 1951, George bought Jack Wade from the company, mining on his own, until the early 1970s when his health forced him to slow down.

He lived in a log cabin built around the start of the 20th century and told stories of the old miners, good and bad season, of walking to Dawson for a few days of cards and girls, of the big nuggets; 25, 33, 56 & 70 ounces that the creek has given up.