The city is a summertime attraction for tourists visiting nearby Fairbanks and, due to its location on the Richardson Highway, those traveling to and from the Alaska Highway and Valdez. North Pole was home to two oil refineries, … See more

North Pole is located at 64°45′04″N 147°21′07″W / 64.75111°N 147.35194°W (64°45′04″N 147°21′07″W / 64.75111°N … See more

North Pole is the most Republican-leaning area in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. In 2008 House District 11, which comprises the North Pole area, gave John McCain 7,736 votes (78.4% of the total) to Barack Obama's 1,924 (19.5%). In the 2010 gubernatorial … See more

The Richardson Highway south of Fairbanks led to an assortment of subdivided and unsubdivided homesteads between Ladd Field and 26 Mile Field in the 1940s and 1950s. See more

North Pole first appeared on the 1960 U.S. Census as a city, 7 years after it formally incorporated in 1953. The census of 1960 reported a figure of … See more

The city is in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. North Pole Elementary School, North Pole Middle School, and North … See more

• Daryn Colledge (born 1982), NFL guard, was raised in North Pole and graduated from North Pole High School
• Pheonix Copley (born 1992), goaltender for the Los Angeles Kings and formerly the Washington Capitals. See more