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Dry Creek Alaska Map

Explore Dry Creek, 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 Dry Creek, Alaska

How to Use This Dry Creek, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	63.626638
Longitude	-144.639194
Population	61
Density	0.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99737
Area Code	907
School District	Delta/Greely School District

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About Dry Creek, Alaska

Dry Creek is a locality in Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 61. The population density is 0.2 people per km². Dry Creek is located at 63.6266°N, 144.6392°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99737.

Dry Creek emerges from the vast, hushed expanse of the interior, where the land stretches in muted shades of ochre and spruce-green toward the distant, jagged silhouette of the Alaska Range. It lies 117.0 miles southeast of Badger, AK (from Badger, AK: bearing 131°T), and is situated 122.8 miles southeast of Fairbanks. The air here holds a crystalline, biting clarity that sharpens the edges of the Macomb Plateau, a broad, elevated sweep of terrain that dominates the horizon. Four miles to the west, the water of South Johnson Lake remains a quiet, glassy mirror for the pale, subarctic sky, while the channel of Dry Creek carves a path through the gravelly soil, its bed often thin and whispering as it winds through the low-lying shrubbery. During the long, lingering hours of twilight, the light deepens into a bruised violet that seems to suspend the world in a profound, heavy stillness, casting the entire landscape into a state of watchful, ancient waiting.

Human presence in Dry Creek remains a modest counterpoint to the immense scale of the surrounding wilderness, where the Tanana Valley State Forest provides a sprawling buffer of dense timber and untamed growth. The economy here is tethered to the rhythmic demands of the interior, defined by the seasonal pulse of maintenance and the movement of goods across a territory that resists easy domestication. Life moves with an awareness of the persistent, quiet endurance required to thrive so far from the reach of larger settlements, where the bush plane and the steady hum of infrastructure are the primary threads connecting the people to the wider world. Residents navigate the seasons with a practical, grounded focus, finding a particular beauty in the way the frost pattern settles upon the earth and the manner in which the quiet of the tundra dictates the pace of every passing day.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tanana Valley State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 6.6 mi, 000° N
Delta Junction Bison Range Area (State Resource Management Area) — 11.8 mi, 335° NW
Upward Sun River (Historic Ruins) — 28.4 mi, 003° N
Delta River (Wild & Scenic River) — 37.4 mi, 244° SW · 44k acres
Pipeline Viewpoint (Attraction) — 37.7 mi, 283° W
Richardson Monument (Attraction) — 41.5 mi, 223° SW
Denali's Fault. Scenic overlook (Viewpoint) — 42.0 mi, 307° NW
Fortymile Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 45.8 mi, 018° N
Gold Panning (Attraction) — 52.0 mi, 112° E
World's Largest Mosquito (Public Artwork) — 52.0 mi, 112° E
Lost Lake Ridge site (Historic Ruins) — 55.4 mi, 318° NW
Fortymile River (Wild & Scenic River) — 63.9 mi, 029° NE · 248k acres
Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 64.0 mi, 171° S · 4.3M acres
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 69.9 mi, 013° N · 2.2M acres
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (National Park) — 70.7 mi, 160° S · 8.0M acres
Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 77.4 mi, 175° S · 9.7M acres

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