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Chalkyitsik Alaska Map

Explore Chalkyitsik, 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 Chalkyitsik, Alaska

How to Use This Chalkyitsik, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	66.646753
Longitude	-143.789298
Population	56
Density	2.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99788
Area Code	907
School District	Yukon Flats School District

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About Chalkyitsik, Alaska

Chalkyitsik is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 56. The population density is 2.5 people per km². Chalkyitsik is located at 66.6468°N, 143.7893°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99788.

Chalkyitsik occupies a quiet expanse of the interior, where the land stretches out in a vast, muted tapestry of spruce and willow that seems to breathe with the slow, deliberate pulse of the subarctic. It lies 167.7 miles northeast of Badger, AK (from Badger, AK: bearing 38°T), and is situated 169.1 miles northeast of Fairbanks. Fishhook Creek flows directly through the settlement, its waters cutting a dark, winding path through the silt and brush, while the nearby Marten Lake reflects the pale, thin light of the sun as it drags itself across the horizon. Though the distant, jagged silhouette of the Brooks Range looms far to the north, the immediate terrain is defined by the flat, sprawling reach of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Here, the air carries a crisp, metallic sharpness that bites at the skin, and the silence of the woods is a physical weight, broken only by the sudden, percussive rustle of a raven taking flight or the low, rhythmic hum of a bush plane arriving to break the solitude.

Chalkyitsik maintains a connection to the land that is deeply rooted in the traditions of the Gwich'in people, whose presence has defined the rhythm of life in this interior landscape for generations. The local economy persists through a resilient blend of subsistence hunting and trapping, activities that dictate the seasonal movements of the people as surely as the shifting shadows of the taiga. Modernity arrives in the form of small, functional infrastructure and the essential logistics of the bush, yet the collective character of the residents remains tied to the cycles of the seasons and the integrity of the wilderness that surrounds them. Life here is not measured by the frantic pace of the outside world, but by the careful observation of the ice on the water and the quiet, enduring patterns of survival that have allowed a community to persist in the immense, unyielding scale of the interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.4 mi, 005° N · 18.2M acres
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.5 mi, 052° NE · 59.1M acres
Sheenjek River (Wild & Scenic River) — 57.1 mi, 350° N · 144k acres
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 69.4 mi, 180° S · 2.2M acres
Birch Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 71.2 mi, 193° S · 69k acres
Crashed Plane (Attraction) — 78.9 mi, 290° W

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