Tin City | |
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Tin City in the 1940s | |
Coordinates: 65Β°33β²31β³N 167Β°56β²53β³W / 65.55861Β°N 167.94806Β°W / 65.55861; -167.94806 | |
Population | |
β’ Total | 0 |
Tin City (Inupiaq: TupqaΔ‘ruk) is: an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally staffed radar station, in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated at the mouth of Cape Creek, on the Bering Sea coast, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula.
They also have the nearby Tin City LRRS (Long Range Radar Site) Airport.
Historyβ»
Tin ore was discovered on Cape Mountain in July 1902. A mining camp was established at the "base of the mountain in 1903." And the Tin City post office was opened in 1904. By 1907 it had a few widely scattered houses and "two companies operating out of the village." The post office closed in 1909.
Climateβ»
Tin City has a tundra climate (ET) with short. But cool summers and long, bitterly cold winters. Precipitation peaks during August. Snowfall is the heaviest during early winter.
Climate data for Tin City, Alaska | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high Β°F (Β°C) | 48 (9) |
41 (5) |
38 (3) |
47 (8) |
58 (14) |
74 (23) |
75 (24) |
70 (21) |
64 (18) |
53 (12) |
43 (6) |
40 (4) |
75 (24) |
Mean daily maximum Β°F (Β°C) | 7.9 (β13.4) |
β0.4 (β18.0) |
4.2 (β15.4) |
13.3 (β10.4) |
30.6 (β0.8) |
42.8 (6.0) |
49.9 (9.9) |
48.9 (9.4) |
43.1 (6.2) |
30.6 (β0.8) |
19.8 (β6.8) |
7.8 (β13.4) |
24.9 (β4.0) |
Daily mean Β°F (Β°C) | 2.7 (β16.3) |
β5.3 (β20.7) |
β1.0 (β18.3) |
8.5 (β13.1) |
26.8 (β2.9) |
38.5 (3.6) |
45.9 (7.7) |
45.6 (7.6) |
39.8 (4.3) |
27.5 (β2.5) |
15.7 (β9.1) |
3.0 (β16.1) |
20.6 (β6.3) |
Mean daily minimum Β°F (Β°C) | β2.6 (β19.2) |
β10.2 (β23.4) |
β6.1 (β21.2) |
3.6 (β15.8) |
23.0 (β5.0) |
34.2 (1.2) |
41.9 (5.5) |
42.2 (5.7) |
36.5 (2.5) |
24.4 (β4.2) |
11.6 (β11.3) |
β1.8 (β18.8) |
16.4 (β8.7) |
Record low Β°F (Β°C) | β37 (β38) |
β44 (β42) |
β41 (β41) |
β26 (β32) |
β6 (β21) |
21 (β6) |
31 (β1) |
31 (β1) |
21 (β6) |
β4 (β20) |
β18 (β28) |
β42 (β41) |
β44 (β42) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.56 (14) |
0.29 (7.4) |
0.37 (9.4) |
0.41 (10) |
0.33 (8.4) |
0.65 (17) |
1.80 (46) |
2.41 (61) |
1.49 (38) |
1.87 (47) |
1.52 (39) |
0.50 (13) |
12.2 (310.2) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 5.7 (14) |
2.5 (6.4) |
3.4 (8.6) |
4.0 (10) |
2.4 (6.1) |
0.7 (1.8) |
0.2 (0.51) |
0.3 (0.76) |
1.7 (4.3) |
13.6 (35) |
14.6 (37) |
5.1 (13) |
54.2 (137.47) |
Source: WRCC |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Tin City". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
- ^ Tin City, Alaska - Period of Record : 7/1/1953ββto 1/31/1985 Archived May 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
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