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Chicken Alaska Map

Explore Chicken, 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 Chicken, Alaska

How to Use This Chicken, Alaska Map

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

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	Chicken
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Southeast Fairbanks
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	64.087691
Longitude	-141.828278
Population	12
Density	N/A /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99732
Area Code	907
School District	Alaska Gateway School District

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About Chicken, Alaska

Chicken is a locality in Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 12. Chicken is located at 64.0877°N, 141.8283°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99732.

Chicken occupies a rugged stretch of high-latitude wilderness where the subarctic light stretches shadows across the earth in long, amber fingers. It lies 174.2 miles east-southeast of Badger, AK (from Badger, AK: bearing 104°T), and is situated 177.3 miles east-southeast of Steele Creek. The landscape surrounding Chicken is defined by vast, untamed expanses of taiga and tundra, where the air possesses a crisp, biting clarity that tastes of spruce and ancient frost. Only a mile away, the waters of Eagle Creek cut through the soil, carving a path toward the Fortymile River, a Wild and Scenic River that winds through the terrain like a vein of liquid silver. Though the peaks of the Alaska Range remain distant, ghosting the horizon in shades of pale violet, the immediate ground is a mosaic of moss, lichen, and hardy brush that clings to the valley floor under the immense, unblinking sky.

Gold mining remains the pulse of Chicken, a legacy that transformed these hills during the turn of the century and still influences the steady, deliberate rhythm of existence here. The economy survives on the stubborn persistence of those who continue to work the earth, alongside a seasonal influx of travelers who arrive to witness the quiet endurance of a place that feels untouched by the frantic pace of the modern world. Life in Chicken is defined by the necessity of preparation and the camaraderie born of isolation, where the sight of a bush plane crossing the clouds or the rustle of a raven in the canopy serves as the primary gauge of the passing day. This locality acts as a living archive of the frontier spirit, where the harshness of the environment is matched only by the quiet beauty of the sun dipping low behind the timberline, casting a golden warmth over the scattered, weathered structures that define the settlement.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fortymile River (Wild & Scenic River) — 1.2 mi, 180° S · 248k acres
Chicken chicken statue (Public Artwork) — 3.6 mi, 250° W
Mosquito Flats Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 32.8 mi, 243° SW
Fortymile Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 42.1 mi, 359° N
Tanana Valley State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 46.9 mi, 203° SW
Fort Egbert (Attraction) — 51.8 mi, 020° N
Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.9 mi, 191° S · 1.5M acres
Tok Administrative Site (National Wildlife Refuge) — 62.2 mi, 214° SW · 89 acres
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 62.3 mi, 005° N · 2.2M acres
Gold Panning (Attraction) — 64.2 mi, 217° SW

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