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KOBUK

Specialty Definition: Kobuk, Alaska

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Kobuk is a city located in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 109.

Geography


Kobuk is located at 66°55'3" North, 156°54'25" West (66.917579, -156.906829)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 43.6 km² (16.8 mi²). 41.7 km² (16.1 mi²) of it is land and 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.34% water.

Demographics


As of the census2 of 2000, there are 109 people, 26 households, and 23 families residing in the city. The population density is 2.6/km² (6.8/mi²). There are 45 housing units at an average density of 1.1/km² (2.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 4.59% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 93.58% Native American, 0.92% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.92% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 4.59% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 26 households out of which 61.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% are married couples living together, 30.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 11.5% are non-families. 11.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 0.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 4.19 and the average family size is 4.26. In the city the population is spread out with 52.3% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 18.3% from 25 to 44, 17.4% from 45 to 64, and 2.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 17 years. For every 100 females there are 98.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $30,750, and the median income for a family is $20,313. Males have a median income of $71,250 versus $21,875 for females. The per capita income for the city is $9,844. 28.6% of the population and 32.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 28.2% are under the age of 18 and 57.1% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kobuk, Alaska."

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Photo Album: KOBUK

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FWS Agents in Kobuk Valley. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Kobuk Village Scene. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: KOBUK

"KOBUK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KOBUK" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: KOBUK


1. Kobuk, AK (city, FIPS 40840)
Location: 66.90461 N, 156.89636 W
Population (1990): 69 (24 housing units)
Area: 42.4 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 99751
Country: USA

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Expression: KOBUK

Expression using "KOBUK": kobuk Valley National Park. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KOBUK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

kobuk valley national park

9

kobuk ak

5

kobuk valley

5

kobuk

4

information kobuk national park valley

4

kobuk map national park valley

4

kobuk river

3

information kobuk valley

3

kobuk alaska

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: KOBUK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-k-k-o-u"

-2 letters: kob.

-3 letters: bo.

 Words containing the letters "b-k-k-o-u"
 

+5 letters: knockabout, kookaburra.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: KOBUK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 4F 42 55 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    ---    -...    ..-    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01001111 01000010 01010101 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#79 &#66 &#85 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 004F 0042 0055 004B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4549365545

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Usage Frequency
3. Cities
4. Expressions 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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