NOORVIK, Alaska — One down, more than 309 million to go. U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves on Monday began the 2010 count of the nation's residents in a village in Alaska's arctic hinterlands. The first person tallied in Noorvik, an Inupiat Eskimo community of 650, was Clifton Jackson, a World War II veteran and the town's oldest resident. "It's all downhill from now," Groves said after exiting Jackson's house. Clifton said he was honored to be the first person counted because he thought there were other elders in town who would have been just as worthy. "It's seemed, to me, OK," he said. Groves and other officials were taken from the airport to the village school by sled, with dog teams driven by schoolchildren.
2010 Census Count Begins: Noorvik, Alaska, Records First Household
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Mon, 01/25/2010 - 3:45pm
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