Chickaloon Alaska Map

About Chickaloon, Alaska

Chickaloon is a locality in Fairbanks North Star, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 254. The population density is 1.5 people per km². Chickaloon is located at 61.8153°N, 148.2920°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP codes: 99709, 99674.

Chickaloon emerges from the interior wilderness as a quiet expanse of rugged terrain, defined by low-slung hills and the persistent, biting breath of the subarctic wind. It lies 20.0 miles west-southwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 258°T), and is situated 14.3 miles west of Chena Ridge. The landscape surrounding Chickaloon is a vast, terrestrial theater of dense thickets and open boreal expanses, where the light at dusk settles in long, bruised purples against the horizon. A mere mile away, the Tanana Valley State Forest provides a sprawling, untamed border of spruce and birch, while the distant, jagged silhouette of the Alaska Range looms far to the west, a phantom spine of stone that seems to hold the sky in place. The air here carries the scent of damp moss and cooling earth, a stark reminder that this place exists deep within the continent, far removed from the influence of any distant shore.

History in Chickaloon is written in the silence of abandoned earthworks and the memory of coal extraction that once defined the local economy, drawing prospectors into the shadows of the hills. While the industrial fervor has long since quieted, the remnants of that era persist as weathered artifacts, grounding the present in a deliberate, measured pace of life. Residents live in close proximity to the natural cycles of the land, finding sustenance and solitude in the vastness of the nearby woods. Only six miles away, the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest serves as a quiet sentinel of scientific inquiry, watching over the slow, rhythmic growth of the taiga. In the quiet hours of the afternoon, the stillness of the valley feels absolute, an immense scale that dwarfs the small, sturdy homes that stand against the reach of the northern cold.

About This Chickaloon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chickaloon, Alaska. Coordinates: 61.815283, -148.291957. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Chickaloon includes the ZIP code (99709, 99674), telephone area code (907), county seat of Fairbanks North Star, and school district assignment (Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.