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Birch Creek Alaska Map

Explore Birch Creek, 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 Birch Creek, Alaska

How to Use This Birch Creek, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	66.268327
Longitude	-145.876583
Population	35
Density	1.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99730
Area Code	907
School District	Yukon Flats School District

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About Birch Creek, Alaska

Birch Creek is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 35. The population density is 1.7 people per km². Birch Creek is located at 66.2683°N, 145.8766°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99730.

Birch Creek occupies a vast, hushed expanse where the taiga stretches out in muted shades of spruce-needle green and bruised gold. It lies 112.1 miles north-northeast of Badger, AK (from Badger, AK: bearing 25°T), and is situated 112.2 miles north-northeast of Fairbanks. The land here holds a profound stillness, a horizon-wide solitude that remains untouched by the frantic pulse of the outside world. To the north, the distant, jagged silhouette of the Brooks Range cuts a serrated line against the sky, standing as a silent sentinel over the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, which blankets the surrounding country in a tapestry of wetlands and boreal forest. The air carries a sharp, metallic clarity, especially when the subarctic light thins at dusk, casting long, lean shadows that seem to stretch toward the infinite. Three Lakes lies a few miles away, its surface a dark mirror for the clouds, while the nearby Discovery Creek tracks through the undergrowth with a low, persistent murmur that defines the soundscape of the terrain.

History in Birch Creek is written in the endurance of those who have long navigated the immense scale of this interior wilderness. Life here is not measured by the accumulation of industry, but by the quiet, seasonal rhythms of subsistence and the careful stewardship of the land. The economy remains tethered to the natural cycles of the region, where the presence of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge ensures that the wilderness retains its wild, unyielding character. Birch Creek exists in a state of deliberate isolation, where the reliance on bush planes and the resilience of the local inhabitants serve as the primary links to the wider world. It is a place where the scale of the environment dwarfs human architecture, leaving the inhabitants to exist as small, determined figures against an immense, indifferent, and beautiful landscape.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.6 mi, 351° N · 18.2M acres
Steese National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 29.3 mi, 179° S · 1.2M acres
Beaver Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 36.2 mi, 213° SW · 77k acres
Mount Prindle (Wmnra) Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 53.9 mi, 199° S
Crashed Plane (Attraction) — 55.0 mi, 341° N
Mount Prindle (Snca) Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 57.3 mi, 194° S
Birch Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 59.8 mi, 178° S · 69k acres
U.S. Creek Overlook (Viewpoint) — 69.8 mi, 200° S

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