Editing Ruby, Alaska (section)

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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name            = Ruby
|native_name              = Tl'aa'ologhe
|settlement_type          = [[City (Alaska)|City]]
|nickname                 = The Gem of the Yukon
|motto                    = <!-- Images -->
|image_skyline            = File:Alaska - Ruby - NARA - 23942279.jpg
|imagesize                = 300px
|image_caption            = Ruby in the 1940s
|image_flag               = 
|image_seal               = <!-- Maps -->
|pushpin_map  = USA Alaska
|pushpin_map_caption  = Location in Alaska

<!-- Location -->
|subdivision_type         = Country
|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
|subdivision_name1        = [[Alaska]]
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska|Census Area]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska|Yukon-Koyukuk]]
|government_footnotes     = 
|government_type          = 
|leader_title             = [[Mayor]]
|leader_name              = Elizabeth Captain
|leader_title1            = [[Alaska Senate|State senator]]
|leader_name1             = [[Click Bishop]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]])
|leader_title2            = [[Alaska House of Representatives|State rep.]]
|leader_name2             = [[Mike Cronk]] (R)
|established_title        = [[Municipal corporation|Incorporated]]
|established_date         = September 25, 1973<ref>{{cite journal|title=Directory of Borough and City Officials 1974|journal=Alaska Local Government|volume=XIII|issue=2|page=68|location=Juneau|publisher=[[Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development|Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs]]|date=January 1974}}</ref>

<!-- Area -->
|area_footnotes           = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_02.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 29, 2021}}</ref>
|area_magnitude           = 
|area_total_km2           = 18.19
|area_land_km2            = 18.19
|area_water_km2           = 0.00
|area_total_sq_mi         = 7.03
|area_land_sq_mi          = 7.03
|area_water_sq_mi         = 0.00

<!-- Population -->
|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
|population_footnotes     = 
|population_total         = 139
|population_density_km2   = 7.64
|population_density_sq_mi = 19.79
|timezone                 = [[Alaska Time Zone|Alaska (AKST)]]
|utc_offset               = -9
|timezone_DST             = AKDT
|utc_offset_DST           = -8
|elevation_footnotes      = 
|elevation_m              = 76
|elevation_ft             = 249
|coordinates              = {{coord|64|44|14|N|155|29|16|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code_type         = [[ZIP code]]
|postal_code              = 99768
|area_code                = [[Area code 907|907]]
|area_code_type           = [[North American Numbering Plan|Area code]]
|blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
|blank_info               = 02-65590
|blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
|blank1_info              = {{GNIS 4|1408878}} 
|website                  = 
|footnotes                = 
|pop_est_as_of = 
|pop_est_footnotes = 
|population_est = 
|unit_pref = Imperial
}}

'''Ruby''' ([[Koyukon language|Koyukon]]: ''Tl'aa'ologhe'') is an incorporated town in central western Alaska, situated on the south bank of the [[Yukon River]] at the northwesternmost tip of the [[Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge]].  It is accessible only by boat or air.  A formerly sizeable gold-mining and lumbering town servicing the region, at the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]] the population was just 166, with only a general store and post office remaining as businesses,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2011/tables/SUB-EST2011-03-02.xls|title=US Census Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Alaska: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2011|access-date=April 2, 2013}}</ref> down from 188 in 2000.

It is served by [[Ruby Airport]].