Explore Chickaloon, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Chickaloon, 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 Chickaloon.
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 | Chickaloon |
| State | Alaska (AK) |
| County | Fairbanks North Star |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) |
| Latitude | 61.815283 |
| Longitude | -148.291957 |
| Population | 254 |
| Density | 1.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 99709, 99674 |
| Area Code | 907 |
| School District | Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District |
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.
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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).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |