This is a list of communities in
Yukon
Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories. It also is the second-least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 43,964 as ...
.
Municipalities
Unincorporated communities
These areas lie within the
Unorganized Yukon
Unorganized Yukon, or Yukon, Unorganized, is the unorganized area covering the majority of Yukon, Canada. It represents 98% of Yukon's land mass, and is recognized as a census subdivision by Statistics Canada.
Demographics
In the 2021 Canadian ...
, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.
Hamlets
Statistics Canada
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recognizes two
census subdivisions
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in Yukon that are classified as
hamlets
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.
*
Ibex Valley
*
Mount Lorne
Localities
The ''Gazetteer of Yukon'' recognized 96 localities as of February 2012.
Two of these localities,
Tagish
The Tagish or Tagish Khwáan ( Tagish: ; tli, Taagish ḵwáan) are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in Yukon of Canada. The Tagish intermarried heavily with ...
and
Upper Liard, are designated as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada, though are classified as settlements.
[
*]Aishihik
Aishihik (Also known as Äshèyi) is a village of the Southern Tutchone people at the north end of Äshèyi Män ( Aishihik Lake) in Yukon. It continues to be the home of the Äshèyi people. Champagne and Aishihik First Nations continue to us ...
*Ballarat Creek
*Barlow
*Bear Creek
*Black Hills
*Boundary
*Braeburn
*Brewer Creek
*Britannia Creek
*Brooks Brook
*Calumet
*Canyon
* Canyon City
*Carcross Cutoff
*Caribou
*Champagne
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*Clear Creek
* Clinton Creek
*Coffee Creek
* Conrad
*Dalton Post
This is a list of communities in Yukon.
Municipalities
Unincorporated communities
These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.
Hamlets
Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivis ...
* De Wette
* Dezadeash
*Donjek
*Dominion
*Dry Creek
*Dundalk
*Eagle Plains
*Flat Creek
*Fort Reliance
Fort Reliance is an abandoned trading post in the Yukon Territory of Canada. It stands on the east bank of the Yukon River, downstream of the town of Dawson City. The fort was established in 1874 by François Mercier, Jack McQuesten, and Fran ...
*Fort Selkirk
Fort Selkirk is a former trading post on the Yukon River at the confluence of the Pelly River in Canada's Yukon. For many years it was home to the Selkirk First Nation (Northern Tutchone).
History
Archaeological evidence shows that the site has ...
* Forty Mile
*Frances Lake
*Glacier Creek
*Glenboyle
*Gold Bottom
* Gold Run
*Gordon Landing
*Grand Forks
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*Granville, Yukon
This is a list of communities in Yukon.
Municipalities
Unincorporated communities
These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.
Hamlets
Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivis ...
*Gravel Lake
*Herschel
*Hootalinqua
*Hundred Mile Landing
*Hutshi
*Isaac Creek
*Jakes Corner Jakes Corner or Jake's Corner may refer to:
Places
* Jakes Corner, Yukon, Canada
* Jakes Corner, Arizona
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Geogr ...
*Jensen Creek
*Kirkman Creek
*Kloo Lake
* Klondike
*Klukshu
This is a list of communities in Yukon.
Municipalities
Unincorporated communities
These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.
Hamlets
Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivis ...
*Koidern
*Kynocks
*Lansdowne Lansdowne or Lansdown may refer to:
People
* Lansdown Guilding (1797–1831), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines naturalist and engraver
*Fenwick Lansdowne (1937–2008), Canadian wildlife artist
* George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) ...
*Lansing
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*Lapierre House Lapierre or LaPierre is a surname, and may refer to:
People
* Dominique Lapierre, French author
* Edmond Lapierre (1866–1960), Canadian politician
* Fabrice Lapierre, Australian athlete
* Gary LaPierre, American radio broadcaster
* Jean Lapierre ...
* Little Gold
*Little River
Little River may refer to several places:
Australia Streams New South Wales
*Little River (Dubbo), source in the Dubbo region, a tributary of the Macquarie River
* Little River (Oberon), source in the Oberon Shire, a tributary of Coxs River (Haw ...
* Little Salmon
*Little Teslin Lake
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
* Livingstone, Yukon
* Livingstone Creek
*Lorne, Yukon
This is a list of communities in Yukon.
Municipalities
Unincorporated communities
These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.
Hamlets
Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...
* Mason Landing
*McCabe Creek
* McClintok
*McQuesten McQuesten may refer to:
* Jack McQuesten (1836–1909), American pioneer explorer, trader, and prospector in Alaska and Yukon
*Mary Baker McQuesten (1849–1934), Victorian-era Canadian letter writer and activist
*Thomas McQuesten
Thomas Baker M ...
* Mendenhall Landing
*Minto, Yukon
This is a list of communities in Yukon.
Municipalities
Unincorporated communities
These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.
Hamlets
Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...
* Minto Bridge
*Montague, Yukon
This is a list of communities in Yukon.
Municipalities
Unincorporated communities
These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass.
Hamlets
Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...
* Moosehide
* Morley River
* Nesketahin
*Ogilvie Ogilvie is a surname of Scottish origin. It may also refer to:
People
*Ogilvie (name)
Places Australia
*Ogilvie, Western Australia
Canada
*Ogilvie, Nova Scotia
*Ogilvie Aerodrome, Yukon
*Ogilvie Mountains, a mountain range in Yukon
Scotland
* ...
*Paris
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*Pelly Lakes
*Quill Creek
*Rampart House
*Rancheria
*Readford
*Robinson
*Rock Creek
*Scroggie Creek
*Selwyn
* Silver City
*Sixtymile
*Snag
*Snag Junction
*Stevens Roadhouse
*Stewart River
*Stony Creek Camp
*Sulphur
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*Summit Roadhouse
*Tagish
The Tagish or Tagish Khwáan ( Tagish: ; tli, Taagish ḵwáan) are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that lived around Tagish Lake and Marsh Lake, in Yukon of Canada. The Tagish intermarried heavily with ...
(also designated a census subdivision)[
*Takhini
*]Takhini Hot Springs
Takhini Hot Springs (Takhini Hotspring) (tɑːkiːniː) is a natural hot springs located just outside the border of Whitehorse, Yukon ( from the city centre). It is a locally run business which incorporates two pools at different temperatures and ...
*Ten Mile
*Teslin Crossing
Teslin Crossing is an unincorporated area in Yukon, Canada, located on the Teslin River about north-northeast of Whitehorse.
See also
*Teslin (disambiguation) Teslin is the anglicized form of the name of the ''Deisleen Ḵwáan'' ("Big Sinew Tri ...
*Teslin Lake
*Teslin River
The Teslin River is a river in southern Yukon Territory and northwestern British Columbia, Canada, that flows from its source south of Teslin Lake to its confluence with the Yukon River.
During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896–99, the river beca ...
*Thistle Creek
*Tuchitua
*Upper Laberge
* Upper Liard (also designated a census subdivision)[
*Watson
*Wernecke
*West Dawson
*Whitefish Station
*Whitestone Village
*Yukon Crossing
]
Dalton Post
Dalton Post or Shäwshe is a former trading post
A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded.
Typically the location of the trading post would allow people from one geographic area to tr ...
and First Nations
First Nations or first peoples may refer to:
* Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area.
Indigenous groups
*First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including:
**First Natio ...
community on the Tatshenshini River
The Tatshenshini River (; Tlingit ''Tʼachanshahéeni'', Southern Tutchone ''Shäwshe Chù'') is a river in the Canadian boreal forest, in the southwestern Yukon and the northwestern corner of British Columbia. It originates in British Columbia, ...
. It was on the Dalton Trail
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Originally, the Chil ...
near the Haines Highway
The Haines Highway or Haines Cut-Off (and still often called the Haines Road) is a highway that connects Haines, Alaska, in the United States, with Haines Junction, Yukon, Canada, passing through the province of British Columbia. It follows t ...
. Today, it is a prime Pacific salmon
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fishing spot and serves as a base for whitewater rafting
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expeditions on the Tatshenshini and Alsek River
The Alsek River (; Tlingit ''Aalseix̱' '') is a wilderness river flowing from Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska. It enters the Gulf of Alaska at Dry Bay.
Most of the Alsek River's basin is within protected wilderness areas an ...
s in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park
Tatshenshini-Alsek Park or Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Wilderness Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada . It was established in 1993 after an intensive campaign by Canadian and American conservation organizations to halt mining e ...
.
Jakes Corner
Jakes Corner is a spot on the road, at historical mile 866 of the