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Eagle (Hän: Tthee T'äwdlenn) is an incorporated city in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, on the south bank of the Yukon River near the Canada–US border.

Eagle became the first incorporated city of the Alaska Interior when it incorporated on February 9, 1901, and it was named for the many eagles that nested on nearby Eagle Bluff.

The 2020 census counted 83 residents in 45 households in Eagle, with a median age of 59.3 years.

Eagle sits at the end of the Taylor Highway, about 5.9 miles west of the Alaska–Yukon border at the 141st meridian, near Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve.

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

By 1898, Eagle's population had exceeded 1,700 as it became a supply and trading center for miners working the upper Yukon River during the Klondike Gold Rush.

A United States Army camp, Fort Egbert, was built at Eagle in 1900, and a telegraph line between Eagle and Valdez was completed in 1903.

In 1905, Roald Amundsen arrived in Eagle and telegraphed the news of the Northwest Passage to the rest of the world.

Judge James Wickersham moved the Third Division court from Eagle to Fairbanks in 1903, and Fort Egbert was abandoned in 1911 as the population declined.

Many Gold Rush-era buildings survive in the Eagle Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 27, 1970, and designated a National Historic Landmark on June 2, 1978.