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Alakanuk Alaska Map

Explore Alakanuk, Alaska, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Alakanuk, Alaska

How to Use This Alakanuk, Alaska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Alakanuk, Alaska. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alaska or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Alakanuk.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Alakanuk
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Kusilvak
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Nome)

Latitude	62.710997
Longitude	-164.649719
Population	756
Density	9.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99554
Area Code	907
School District	Lower Yukon School District

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About Alakanuk, Alaska

Alakanuk is a locality in Kusilvak, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 756. The population density is 9.1 people per km². Alakanuk is located at 62.7110°N, 164.6497°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Nome) timezone. Alakanuk is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99554.

Alakanuk claims a vast, quiet expanse where the subarctic light stretches thin and pale over the low-lying tundra. It lies 487.6 miles west-northwest of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 288°T), and is situated 161.0 miles northwest of Bethel.

The earth here is a mosaic of moss and peat, a fragile layer of life held over deep, frozen ground, while the Yukon River snakes through the distance like a vein of darkened glass, nine miles removed from the center of the settlement. To the east and west, the horizon remains unbroken by peaks, leaving the sky to dominate the landscape with an immense, heavy clarity that turns the clouds into bruised charcoal in the late afternoon. Alakanuk sits within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, a designation that ensures the land remains a domain of raven and wind, where the silence is absolute enough to hear the shift of frost in the tall, dormant grasses.

History in Alakanuk is written in the seasonal movements of families who have long understood the necessity of subsistence, building their lives around the cycles of the earth rather than the dictates of a clock. The local economy persists through a delicate balance of traditional gathering and the occasional buzz of a bush plane, a mechanical insect that breaks the quiet to deliver supplies or transport travelers across the plains. Daily life follows the rhythm of a land that demands patience, where the woodstove is the hearth of the home and the changing colors of the brush mark the passage of time more reliably than a calendar. Even in the height of the short summer, the air retains a sharp, metallic edge, reminding anyone who walks these paths that the wild is not a destination to be visited, but a force that defines the very shape of existence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.4 mi, 249° W · 62.7M acres
Clarence Rhodes National Wildlife Range (State Conservation Area) — 27.6 mi, 003° N
Andreafsky Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 42.5 mi, 132° SE · 1.6M acres

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