page_title: Dawson City
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Dawson City / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Streetscene and landslide at mountain side; Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada.
context_page_description: Dawson City, officially the Town of the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush. Its population was 1,375 as of the 2016 census, making it the second largest town of Yukon.
context_section_description: Dawson City lies on the Tintina Fault. This fault has created the Tintina Trench and continues eastward for several hundred kilometres. Erosional remnants of lava flows form outcrops immediately north and west of Dawson City.
caption: Streetscene and landslide at mountain side; Dawson City 1964
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