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Allakaket Alaska Map

Explore Allakaket, 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 Allakaket, Alaska

How to Use This Allakaket, Alaska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Allakaket, 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 Allakaket.

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	Allakaket
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Yukon-Koyukuk
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	66.542002
Longitude	-152.583016
Population	177
Density	4.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99720
Area Code	907
School District	Yukon-Koyukuk School District

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About Allakaket, Alaska

Allakaket is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 177. The population density is 4.6 people per km². Allakaket is located at 66.5420°N, 152.5830°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Allakaket is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99720.

Allakaket endures as a quiet convergence of boreal forest and wide, subarctic sky, defined by the slow, deliberate pulse of the wilderness. It lies 181.2 miles northwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 313°T), and is situated 177.2 miles northwest of Ester. The land surrounding Allakaket is a vast expanse of taiga, where spruce and birch cling to the permafrost, and the stillness of the air is broken only by the occasional cry of a raven. Just one mile away, the Alatna River winds through the landscape, its dark, silt-heavy waters carving a path toward the distant horizon where the Brooks Range stands as a serrated, ghost-like silhouette against the clouds. Only a mile in the opposite direction, the surface of Minotocloga Lake mirrors the shifting moods of the sky, turning from a pale, bruised violet at dusk to the deep, obsidian black of the long winter nights.

Generations of Koyukon Athabascans and Inupiat residents have shaped the cultural character of Allakaket, maintaining a rhythm of life deeply attuned to the seasonal migration of caribou and the cycles of the forest. The economy remains tethered to the land, relying on subsistence hunting and trapping, while the nearby Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge serves as a vital sanctuary for the migratory birds and mammals that define the region’s ecology. Life in Allakaket moves with a patient gravity, dictated by the arrival of bush planes on the gravel strips and the fluctuating temperatures that turn the rivers into frozen highways. It is a place where the immense scale of the interior landscape humbles human endeavor, leaving the inhabitants to navigate the balance between tradition and the persistent, quiet demands of a modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.9 mi, 009° N · 2.6M acres
Indian River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 41.2 mi, 202° S
Gates of the Arctic National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 44.6 mi, 305° NW · 945k acres
Arctic Circle Wayside (Attraction) — 48.7 mi, 088° E
Tozitna River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 51.9 mi, 176° S
Gobblers Knob (Viewpoint) — 53.9 mi, 074° E
Gates of the Arctic National Park (National Park) — 55.2 mi, 351° N · 7.3M acres
Gates of the Arctic Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 55.2 mi, 351° N · 7.2M acres
Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 58.8 mi, 216° SW · 8.0M acres

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