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Fort Greely is a
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(CDP) in
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area Southeast Fairbanks Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,808, down from 7,029 in 2010. It is part of the unorganized borough and therefore has no borough seat. Its lar ...
,
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,
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. It is home to the
Fort Greely Fort Greely is a United States Army launch site for anti-ballistic missiles located about southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. It is also the home of the Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC), as Fort Greely is one of the coldest areas in Alaska, and can ...
military installation. At the 2010 census the population was 539, up from 461 in 2000.


Geography

Fort Greely is located at (63.905016, -145.554566). Fort Greely is located south of
Delta Junction Delta Junction ( uk, Делта-Джанкшен, Delta Dzhankshen) is a city in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 958, up from 840 in 2000. The 2018 estimate was down to 931. T ...
on the
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. According to the
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, the CDP has a total area of . of it is land and of it (0.21%) is water.


Army Nuclear Power Program

Because of its remote location, Fort Greely was chosen as one of the first US military posts to have a compact, nuclear power reactor to generate heat and electricity, under the auspices of the
Army Nuclear Power Program The Army Nuclear Power Program (ANPP) was a program of the United States Army to develop small pressurized water and boiling water nuclear power reactors to generate electrical and space-heating energy primarily at remote, relatively inaccessib ...
. A nuclear power plant, designated the SM-1A was flown in and installed between 1960–62, and was based on the Army's first prototype reactor, the
SM-1 SM-1 (Stationary, Medium-size reactor, prototype #1) was a 2-megawatt nuclear reactor developed by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as part of the US Army Nuclear Power Program (ANPP) i ...
at
Fort Belvoir Fort Belvoir is a United States Army installation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It was developed on the site of the former Belvoir plantation, seat of the prominent Fairfax family for whom Fair ...
, Virginia. SM-1A pressurized-water reactor reached initial criticality on 13 March 1962, and was shut down in 1972: the reactor core was removed and sent to the Savannah River nuclear site.


Demographics

Fort Greely first appeared as an unincorporated military installation on the 1970 U.S. Census. It was made a census-designated place (CDP) in 1980. As of the
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of 2000, there were 461 people, 126 households, and 112 families residing in the CDP. The
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was 2.7/sq mi (1.1/km2). There were 354 housing units at an average density of 2.1/sq mi (0.8/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 65.73%
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, 19.74%
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or
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, 1.30% Native American, 1.30%
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, 1.95%
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, 3.69% from
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, and 6.29% from two or more races. 15.40% of the population were
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or
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of any race. Of the 126 households, 73.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 80.2% were
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living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.1% were non-families. 11.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.25 and the average family size was 3.53. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 38.6% under the age of 18, 16.1% from 18 to 24, 43.4% from 25 to 44, 2.0% from 45 to 64, . The median age was 23 years. For every 100 females, there were 115.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 119.4 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $33,750, and the median income for a family was $32,969. Males had a median income of $26,544 versus $21,375 for females. The
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for the CDP was $12,368. About 11.6% of families and 10.4% of the population were below the
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, including 10.9% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.


Climate

As it is not near the ocean, this area is drier than coastal Alaska and experiences seasonal extremes typical of subarctic areas. The annual precipitation is only 12 inches (305 mm), including 37 inches (94 cm) of snow. The average low temperature in January is −11 °F (−23 °C). The average high during July is +69 °F (+20 °C). Temperature extremes have been recorded from −63 °F to +92 °F (−53 °C to +33 °C). Fort Greely is mostly sunny in the summer and split between clear and overcast days in the winter. On clear winter nights, the
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can often be seen dancing in the sky. Like all subarctic regions, the months from May to July in the summer have no night, only a twilight during the night hours. The months of November to January have little daylight.


See also

*
Allen Army Airfield Allen Army Airfield is a public and military use airport serving Fort Greely and located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Delta Junction, a city in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. ...


Sources and references

*"Fort Greely"
Encyclopedia Astronautica
Retrieved July 18, 2006. *"Fort Greely"
Fort Greely report May 2000
Retrieved May 27, 2012.


External links


Fort Greely Homepage
(official site)
U.S. Army Cold Regions Test Center
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