ALASKA JUDICIAL DISTRICTS and COUNTY HUNTING BY KL7J

Since the most common references are the callbooks, you can use this index to Convert QRZ™, Buckmaster™ or RAC™ Callbook Listings of a station's 'county' or 'location' to one of the four Alaska Judicial Districts used by the County Hunters Award system. There is also a map at the bottom of this page to show you how judicial districts are organized geographically.

Alaska First Judicial District encompasses the following listed by callbooks as counties
(also called Southeastern):
Haines
Juneau
Ketchikan Gateway
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan
Sitka
Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon
Wrangell-Petersburg

Alaska Second Judicial District encompasses the following listed by callbooks as counties
(also called Northwestern):
Nome
Northwest Arctic
North Slope
Wade Hampton
{This district includes man made oil drilling islands/pads in the Arctic Ocean}

Alaska Third Judicial District encompasses the following listed by callbooks as counties
(also called Southcentral):
Aleutians East
Aleutians West
Anchorage
Bristol Bay
Dillingham
Kenai Peninsula
Kodiak Island
Lake and Peninsula
Matanuska-Susitna
Pribilof Islands
Valdez-Cordova

Alaska Fourth Judicial District encompasses the following listed by callbooks as counties
(also called Central):
Bethel
Denali
Fairbanks North Star
Southeast Fairbanks
Saint Matthew Island
Yukon-Koyukuk

THE FOUR JUDICIAL DISTRICTS OF ALASKA
AK Boroughs

*A note from KL7J:
Judicial Districts are used by the County Hunters Award for Alaska because part of the conditions for statehood dictated by the USA under lobbying pressure from mining and salmon canning interests was no counties with their ability to tax them. The Alaskan response was no counties however boroughs could be created and if organized could have taxing ability. More information on this is available in a video by PBS television on Alaskan Statehood.
Therefore U.S. census districts are utilized. Alaska is a very big place, 1/5 the size of the USA.

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