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Ekwok Alaska Map

Explore Ekwok, 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 Ekwok, Alaska

How to Use This Ekwok, Alaska Map

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

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	Ekwok
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Dillingham
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	59.349722
Longitude	-157.475278
Population	111
Density	2.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99580
Area Code	907
School District	Southwest Region School District

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About Ekwok, Alaska

Ekwok is a locality in Dillingham, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 111. The population density is 2.6 people per km². Ekwok is located at 59.3497°N, 157.4753°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Ekwok is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99580.

Ekwok exists as a quiet anchor upon the expansive, verdant floor of the Alaskan interior, where the land stretches in a vast, muted tapestry of lichen and low-growing brush. It lies 289.6 miles west-southwest of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 247°T), and is situated 40.8 miles east-northeast of Dillingham. The horizon is defined by the subtle, persistent presence of the Okstukuk Hills, which rise like a soft, bruised shadow in the distance, framing a landscape that breathes with the slow, deliberate pulse of the subarctic. Just a mile away, the dark, glass-like surface of Klutuk Creek slips through the earth, carving a path that sustains the silent, sprawling woodland surrounding the settlement. Here, the light of late afternoon possesses a peculiar, heavy clarity, turning the air into a golden medium that seems to suspend the very stalks of grass in mid-motion.

Ekwok maintains a rhythm dictated by the seasons, where the persistence of tradition and the necessity of self-reliance shape the daily labor of its inhabitants. The local economy remains deeply tied to the land’s natural offerings, with the harvesting of regional resources forming a cornerstone of life that has persisted through generations of settlement. Residents navigate the immense, featureless stretches of the interior with a practiced ease, utilizing bush planes as essential links to the wider world beyond the reach of roads. In the stillness of the evening, the character of Ekwok reveals itself not in grand gestures, but in the small, enduring habits of a people who have learned to measure their time by the changing colors of the tundra and the migration of the creatures that share this vast, indifferent wilderness.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tunravik (Historic Ruins) — 12.9 mi, 042° NE
Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 36.1 mi, 172° S
Alagnak Wild River (Wild & Scenic River) — 38.6 mi, 119° SE · 27k acres
Wood-tikchik State Park (State Park) — 39.4 mi, 335° NW
Togiak National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.5 mi, 238° SW · 8.6M acres
Alaska's Sporstmans Lodge (Attraction) — 52.7 mi, 093° E
Katmai National Park (National Park) — 54.4 mi, 139° SE · 3.6M acres
Katmai Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 59.2 mi, 142° SE · 3.3M acres
Becharof National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 66.1 mi, 155° SE · 2.3M acres
Egegik Critical Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 79.1 mi, 181° S

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