Home / A great place to do business The Trans-Alaska Pipeline winds through the Fairbanks North Star Borough Photo credit: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company The heart of the interior with with more than 96,888 residents, The Fairbanks North Star Borough, located in the heart of Interior Alaska, is the state's second largest census area Located 50 minutes by air from Anchorage. The Borough encompasses 7,361 square miles of land and 78 square miles of water. Economic Hub Fairbanks is the regional center for the Interior making it a much larger market than it seems at first glance . Some of the communities that regularly do business in Fairbanks include; Delta Junction, 42 Interior villages, Tok Junction and Nenana. Military Two military installations lie within the Borough's boundaries - Fort Wainwright Army Post and Eielson Air Force Base - and more than one-fifth of the Borough's residents live at these sites. Both installations operate their own landfills and Fort Wainwright operates its own water system. Transportation The Borough possesses excellent interregional air, road and rail connections. The Census Area is the northern "end of the line" for the Alaska Railroad, which links the Fairbanks Borough with the ports of Anchorage, Seward and Whittier. The Fairbanks International Airport serves as the regional hub. With the exception of the Glenn and Sterling highways, all major Alaska highways lead to Fairbanks. Click for larger image The University of Alaska Fairbanks is a major economic engine in Fairbanks Photo credit: University of Alaska Fairbanks photo by Todd Paris Natural Resources The Fairbanks North Star Borough offers an abundance of energy production opportunity. The Interior's natural resources are employed to produce electricity, including crude oil from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, coal from the Usibelli Coal mine, and has many local saw mills producing lumber and firewood. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus is studying use of fuel cells and other technologies for potential energy production for the region. Forestry Fairbanks has ready access to many commercial forests For a Socio-Economic Review of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Click here to download a Community Research Quarterly. (Source - Alaska Economic Information System - Department of Community & Economic Development.) Copyright 2004 - 2014 ©, Come to Fairbanks, all rights reserved. This site is brought to you by: Fairbanks North Star Borough, Economic Development Division PO Box 71267, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707. Phone: 907-459-1300 The preparation of this strategy was financed in part by funds received from the State Department of Community and Economic Development, Division of Community and Business Development and the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. Questions, suggestions and recommended links may be sent to: cometofairbanks@fnsb.us. Acknowledgements Web Site by Sundog Media LLC.