Iditarod, Alaska
…presently located within the boundaries of the Flat Census Designated Place, which has no residents as of 2000. The town of Iditarod was named after the Iditarod River. Iditarod comes from the Athabascan word Haidilatna, meaning distant or distant place. On Christmas Day 1908, prospectors John Beaton and W.A. "Bill…