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District courts had jurisdiction over all civil and criminal
matters in Alaska before statehood. Federal district judges were
appointed as early as 1884. The entire territory had only one
district, administered by a judge in Sitka, until 1903, when
three districts were created with judges at Juneau, Saint
Michaels, and Eagle City. The fourth district was added in 1909,
and the four seats were placed in Juneau, Nome, Valdez (moved to
Anchorage in 1943), and Fairbanks. The areas served by these
districts are as follows: - Juneau, District 1: Southeastern
Alexander Archipelago and the cities of Ketchikan, Wrangell,
Sitka, and Juneau. - Nome, District 2: North, including Nome and
Barrow. - Anchorage, District 3: South, including Anchorage,
Kodiak, and the Aleutian Islands. - Fairbanks, District 4:
Central, including Fairbanks, Bethel, and Toksook Bay. Since
1959 district court jurisdiction has been limited to minor civil
and criminal matters such as issuin