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History · Delta Junction

Delta Junction’s post office opened in 1957, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Delta Junction was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Its Register listing is the Sullivan Roadhouse. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1952 on, and the census since 1970.

1957first post office
1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
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From Delta Junction’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Delta Junction began

When was Delta Junction founded?

1957

The Delta Junction post office opened in 1957, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 703 in 19702020 census: 91869 years
Founding year: the first Delta Junction post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
The story

How Delta Junction came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Delta Junction.

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For at least 10,000 years, Athabascan indigenous peoples have inhabited portions of the interior of Alaska. Early inhabitants survived by hunting and fishing. The early history of non-native settlement in the area occurred at the river crossing at Big Delta and is found at the entry, Big Delta, Alaska.

ChaptersWorld War IICold War1991–present

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Delta Junction, 1933 to 1957

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1933In the archivePtarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks…
  3. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1957Post officeThe Delta Junction post office opens
By decade

Delta Junction, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s6 items
Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…1933Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek,…Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…1933Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek,…Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…1933Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek,…Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…1933Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek,…Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…1933Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek,…Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…1933Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek,…
1940s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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On the map

Delta Junction on the map, 1952 to 1975

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Delta Junction. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Delta Junction on the 1952 USGS mapDelta Junction on the 1962 USGS mapDelta Junction on the 1975 USGS map1952Big Delta A-4 sheet · 1:63,360

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Delta Junction.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Ptarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…
Retake this viewPtarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Ptarmigan Creek, Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK HABS AK,19-FO…, 1933

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Delta Junction’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Delta Junction

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1979
Sullivan Roadhouse
Sullivan Roadhouse
Sites
Sullivan RoadhouseSite

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Delta Junction, census by census

02004006008001,000198020002020Peak: 958

Between 652 and 958 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Delta Junction’s Wikipedia page.

Help out

Finish Delta Junction’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewPtarmigan Creek Cabin, North bank of Pt…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

DeltanaIts storyDBig Delta2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Delta Junction’s history

What year was Delta Junction founded?

The Delta Junction post office opened in 1957, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Delta Junction?

One place: the Sullivan Roadhouse (listed 1979).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.