Eagle is a city located along the United States-Canada border in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area is a census area located in the state of Alaska, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 6,174. It is part of the unorganized borough and therefore has no borough seat...

, United States. It includes Eagle Historic District

Eagle Historic District

The Eagle Historic District in Eagle, Alaska is a well preserved example of the historic development in Northern Alaska. Fort Egbert was built in 1889 to serve a central governmental role for the area...

, a U.S. National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

. The population was 129 at the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

. Every February, Eagle hosts a checkpoint for the long-distance Yukon Quest

Yukon Quest

The Yukon Quest 1,000-mile International Sled Dog Race, or simply Yukon Quest, is a sled dog race run every February between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon...

 sled dog race.
Eagle is located at 64°47′10"N 141°12′0"W (64.786022, -141.199917).

Eagle is located 8 miles (12.9 km) west of the border between Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada on the Taylor Highway

Taylor Highway

The Taylor Highway is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska that extends 160 miles from Tetlin, about 11 miles south of Tok on the Alaska Highway, to Eagle....

.

According to the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data...

, the city has a total area of 1 square miles (2.6 km²), all land.
The Eagle area has been the historical home to Han

Han (North American people)

The Han are a Northern Athabascan people who speak the Hän language. Only a handful of fluent speakers remain. Their traditional land centered around a heavily forested area around the Yukon River straddling what is now the Alaska-Yukon Territory border...

 people since before the arrival of Europeans in Alaska.

The first structure in present-day Eagle was a log-trading post called "Belle Isle", built around 1874.

In the late 1800s, Eagle became a supply and trading center for miners working the upper Yukon River

Yukon River

The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. The source of the river is located in British Columbia, Canada. The next portion lies in, and gives its name to Yukon Territory. The lower half of the river lies in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is long and empties into...

 and its tributaries.