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    Valdez (/vælˈdiːz/ val-DEEZ; Alutiiq: Suacit) is a city in the Chugach Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to the 2020 US Census, the population...
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    The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when...
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    of the spill, Exxon Valdez was employed to transport crude oil from the Alyeska consortium's pipeline terminal in Valdez, Alaska, to the lower 48 states...
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    and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems. The core pipeline itself, which is commonly called the Alaska pipeline...
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    Valdez–Cordova Census Area was a census area located in the state of Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,636. It was part...
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  • footballer Valdez “Val” Demings, U.S. politician Valdés, Asturias, Spain Valdez, Alaska, United States Valdez oil terminal Valdez, Esmeraldas, Ecuador Valdez, Florida...
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    Bill Walker (American politician) (category Mayors of Valdez, Alaska)
    Junction and Valdez, Alaska. He obtained a J.D. degree from Seattle University and served as mayor, city councilor, and city attorney for Valdez, and as general...
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    William A. Egan (category Mayors of Valdez, Alaska)
    of Alaska from January 3, 1959, to 1966 and 1970 to 1974, as well as a shadow U.S. Senator from Alaska Territory from 1956 to 1959. Born in Valdez, Alaska...
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  • The Valdez Blockade was a 1993 protest by Cordova fishermen who blockaded the Valdez Narrows in an attempt to obtain funding for research and restoration...
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  • Insomnia (2002 film) (category Films set in Alaska)
    over the Columbia Glacier near Valdez, Alaska, and the float plane approach was over the Portland Canal near Hyder, Alaska, and Stewart, British Columbia...
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    of Alaska, running 368 miles (562 km) and connecting Valdez to Fairbanks. It is marked as Alaska Route 4 from Valdez to Delta Junction and as Alaska Route...
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    Prince William Sound (category Exxon Valdez oil spill)
    Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the...
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    dispatched a convoy to Valdez. On the advice of military and civilian leaders, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared all of Alaska a major disaster area...
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  • Built largely on permafrost during 1975–77 between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez, Alaska, the $8 billion effort required tens of thousands of people, often working...
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  • Magnus Colcord Heurlin (category People from Valdez, Alaska)
    Illustration in Boston, Massachusetts. Heurlin first came to Alaska in 1916, to Valdez, traveling aboard the SS Northwestern from Seattle, Washington...
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  • Shoup Bay (category Geography of Alaska)
    Shoup Bay is an inlet of Port Valdez inside the Valdez Arm of Prince William Sound in Alaska. steep-walled, flat-bottomed basin with a depth of approximately...
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  • college in Palmer Prince William Sound College, community college in Valdez Alaska Career College, for-profit vocational school in Anchorage Charter College...
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  • Prince William Sound College (category 1978 establishments in Alaska)
    P-DUB) is a college located at 303 Lowe St. in Valdez, Alaska. PWSC comprises one main campus in Valdez and extension campuses in Glennallen and Cordova...
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    Prudhoe Bay and the 1977 completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline led to an oil boom. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Prince William Sound, spilling...
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  • James Miller (parachutist) (category People from Valdez, Alaska)
    threats for interrupting sporting events. In 1996, he relocated to Valdez, Alaska where he lived in a dry cabin. He continued to fly ultralight aircraft...
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    of Alaska, United States. It is part of the Unorganized Borough and therefore has no borough seat. On January 2, 2019, it was split from the Valdez–Cordova...
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    Alaska". Alaska History and Cultural Studies. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013. The document on Valdez municipal...
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  • Joseph Hazelwood (category Exxon Valdez oil spill)
    under the influence arrest on September 13, 1988. Exxon Valdez departed the port of Valdez, Alaska, at 9:12 p.m. on March 23, 1989, with 53 million gallons...
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  • Missouri area Blueberry Hill (Alaska), the northernmost point of the coastal Pacific temperate rain forest located in Valdez, Alaska Blue Berry Hill, Texas This...
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    Bay Florida 28,511,760 15,913,148 12,598,612 8,250,523 4,348,089 25 Valdez Alaska 25,113,231 23,019,746 2,093,485 0 2,093,485 26 Twin Ports of Duluth...
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    Anthony Dimond (category Mayors of Valdez, Alaska)
    in Chisana, Alaska (1913–1914); Special Assistant US Attorney for the 3rd Judicial Division of Alaska in Valdez (1917); Mayor of Valdez (1920–1922, 1925–1932);...
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    Sydney Laurence (category People from Valdez, Alaska)
    years in the then-District of Alaska, but between 1911 and 1914 he began to focus once again on his art. He moved from Valdez to the nascent town of Anchorage...
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    Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (category Trans-Alaska Pipeline System)
    the fields on the North Slope of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 to an ice-free deep-water port in Valdez, Alaska. The pipeline was built between...
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    Marijuana milestone: Alaska's first pot shop opens to the public in Valdez Archived November 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Alaska Dispatch News, October...
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  • near Valdez, Alaska, for 13 out of 20 weeks (season gold total 463oz, over $800,000). In 2022, Dave Turin began the process of selling the Valdez Glacier...
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