ALASKA JUDICIAL DISTRICTS and COUNTY HUNTING BY KL7J

In Alaska, Judicial Districts are used as counties by the County Hunters Award.
The most common references to a station location are the callbooks. One can use this index to Convert Buckmaster™, RAC™ Callbook Listings, or QRZ™ internet - more detail - US county listing of an Alaska station '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 the judicial districts boundaries.

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 as equivalent of a county. There are no counties in 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 borough's noted in the colors on the map could be created, and if organized could have taxing ability. More information is available in a video by PBS television on Alaskan Statehood. That is the reason 4 U.S. census districts are utilized as the 4 counties in the County Hunter Awards.
Alaska is a very big place, 1/5 the size of the USA.

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