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Dot Lake Alaska Map

Explore Dot Lake, 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 Dot Lake, Alaska

How to Use This Dot Lake, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	63.587223
Longitude	-144.292361
Population	21
Density	N/A /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99737
Area Code	907
School District	Alaska Gateway School District

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About Dot Lake, Alaska

Dot Lake is a locality in Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 21. Dot Lake is located at 63.5872°N, 144.2924°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99737.

Dot Lake occupies a vast, hushed expanse of the interior where the subarctic light stretches thin and pale across the black spruce and muskeg. It lies 130.5 miles southeast of Badger, AK (from Badger, AK: bearing 125°T), and is situated 136.4 miles southeast of Fairbanks. The air here holds a crystalline weight, sharpening the silhouette of the timberline against a sky that seems to possess a gravity of its own. Five miles away, the dense, quiet reach of the Tanana Valley State Forest provides a dark, verdant backdrop to the low-lying terrain, while the winding path of Chief Creek cuts through the basin, its water reflecting the muted, silver tones of a northern afternoon. The Alaska Range remains a distant, jagged ghost on the horizon, a serrated edge of white against the blue, barely asserting its presence over the immense, flat scale of the surrounding wilderness.

Dot Lake serves as a quiet pivot point for those who make their lives in the interior, where the rhythm of existence is dictated by the turning of the seasons rather than the frantic pace of the outside world. The economy here remains tethered to the land and the necessary infrastructure that sustains life in such isolation, marked by the steady passage of the pipeline and the occasional drone of a bush plane crossing the empty sky. History is held in the memories of those who have long navigated these woods, a legacy of resilience that persists in the quiet maintenance of the roads and the simple, functional architecture of the settlement. Life in Dot Lake moves with a deliberate, solemn focus, indifferent to the demands of elsewhere, grounded in the reality of a landscape that demands both respect and a stark, unadorned self-reliance.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tanana Valley State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 7.6 mi, 349° N
Delta Junction Bison Range Area (State Resource Management Area) — 20.6 mi, 311° NW
Upward Sun River (Historic Ruins) — 32.3 mi, 344° N
Fortymile Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 35.1 mi, 018° N
Mosquito Flats Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 37.5 mi, 065° NE
Gold Panning (Attraction) — 41.1 mi, 114° SE
World's Largest Mosquito (Public Artwork) — 41.1 mi, 114° SE
Tok Administrative Site (National Wildlife Refuge) — 42.6 mi, 115° SE · 89 acres
Richardson Monument (Attraction) — 47.7 mi, 235° SW
Pipeline Viewpoint (Attraction) — 48.7 mi, 284° W
Denali's Fault. Scenic overlook (Viewpoint) — 52.3 mi, 303° NW
Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 60.4 mi, 180° S · 4.3M acres
Fortymile River (Wild & Scenic River) — 62.1 mi, 019° N · 248k acres
Lost Lake Ridge site (Historic Ruins) — 64.8 mi, 313° NW
Gulkana River (Wild & Scenic River) — 65.0 mi, 220° SW · 93k acres
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (National Park) — 65.1 mi, 168° S · 8.0M acres
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 68.3 mi, 007° N · 2.2M acres
Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 74.4 mi, 180° S · 9.7M acres

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