Talk:Steese Highway

Cities
Added, Central and Cirle to the list of major cities. Anyone actually *been* to Fox? If it's major, then so are Central and Circle. Mercer5089 (talk) 07:07, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Late reply, but I moved those to the "rural municipalities" field and added Fairbanks to the "major cities" field. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:54, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

History
A 1909 USGS map prepared under the direction of Alfred Hulse Brooks shows a road roughly paralleling the southern 30 miles or so of the Steese Highway, one of a number of roads then extant between the various Tanana Valley mining camps/towns. The northern extent of the road network at that time ended in the Chatanika River valley, pretty much in the immediate vicinity of the town of Chatanika itself and the Poker Flat Research Range. In other words, the road leading beyond there towards the Yukon River didn't exist until the Steese actually was constructed during the 1920s. Additionally, this photo offers a clue that the Steese was originally called the Yukon Highway, but Dankarl and I already had a discussion about this with no conclusive evidence turning up. The highway was named for James Gordon Steese not long after it was constructed.RadioKAOS (talk) 00:55, 5 October 2012 (UTC)