On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Farmers Loop is more historic than 23% of U.S. towns, #17 of 41 in Alaska. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Farmers Loop’s overall grade.
Alaska towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Alaska town has 3.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Farmers Loop’s 4.0 sits near the middle of its state (62% of Alaska towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share (±0.5 points) is firm at this size.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Farmers Loop’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Farmers Loop yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Farmers Loop is a census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. It was one of several CDPs created out of various Fairbanks suburbs and outskirts during the 2010 census. As of the 2020 census, Farmers Loop had a population of 4,704. The CDP is located north of Fairbanks and is centered on and named for Farmers Loop Road, a road that runs along the foothills north of Fairbanks between the Steese Highway and the northeastern corner of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Farmers Loop CDP has a total area of 21.90 square miles (56.71 km2), of which 21.87 square miles (56.65 km2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.06…
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 4,853 to 4,704 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Farmers Loop, 1909 to 1949
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Farmers Loop is more historic than 23% of U.S. towns, #17 of 41 in Alaska. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Farmers Loop?
Two places: the Oddfellows House (listed 1980) and the Goldstream Dredge No. 8 (1984).
How old are the homes in Farmers Loop?
0.0% of Farmers Loop’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.3% for an Alaska town; the median home was built in 1983.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
