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Fort Greely Alaska Map

Explore Fort Greely, 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 Fort Greely, Alaska

How to Use This Fort Greely, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	63.9678
Longitude	-145.7149
Population	309
Density	10.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	99737, 99731
Area Code	907
School District	Delta/Greely School District

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About Fort Greely, Alaska

Fort Greely is a locality in Southeast Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 309. The population density is 10.8 people per km². Fort Greely is located at 63.9678°N, 145.7149°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP codes: 99737, 99731.

Fort Greely holds its position upon a vast, subarctic expanse where the air possesses a crystalline sharpness that seems to sharpen the very edges of the horizon. It lies 79.1 miles southeast of Badger, AK (from Badger, AK: bearing 136°T), and is situated 84.7 miles southeast of Fairbanks. The landscape surrounding Fort Greely unfolds in a sprawling, muted palette of taiga and tundra, where the low-angled sun of the northern latitudes casts long, amber shadows across the ground for much of the day. Only four miles away, the waters of Jarvis Creek cut a cold, rhythmic path through the gravelly earth, while five miles to the north, Sheefish Lake reflects the immense, cloud-streaked sky with a clarity that borders on the profound. Though the massive, jagged peaks of the Alaska Range remain a distant, ethereal silhouette far to the south, the immediate terrain feels defined by its own quiet, wind-scoured endurance, occasionally giving way to the dense, silent reaches of the Tanana Valley State Forest just nine miles out.

Military activity serves as the primary pulse of the local economy, anchoring the daily life of the installation in a rigorous, disciplined routine that contrasts with the wild, untamed nature of the interior. Established to test human and mechanical resilience against the most punishing cold, the facility functions as a sentinel of modern defense, where the quiet industry of research and readiness hums beneath the stillness of the interior winter. The existence here is a study in precise adaptation, where the architecture is built to withstand the deep, atmospheric pressures of the subarctic environment while supporting the specialized work of those stationed in this remote theater. Beyond the perimeter, the rhythm of the land remains indifferent to the machines of man, as ravens traverse the sky above the scrub brush and the vast, inland distance stretches out to remind every traveler of the scale and solitude inherent to this northern latitude.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Denali's Fault. Scenic overlook (Viewpoint) — 1.8 mi, 332° NW
Tanana Valley State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 9.5 mi, 018° N
Delta Junction Bison Range Area (State Resource Management Area) — 10.6 mi, 158° S
Pipeline Viewpoint (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 194° S
Lost Lake Ridge site (Historic Ruins) — 17.8 mi, 344° N
Broken Mammoth site (Historic Ruins) — 23.6 mi, 329° NW
Delta River (Wild & Scenic River) — 30.2 mi, 189° S · 44k acres
Silver Fox Lodge (Attraction) — 43.1 mi, 307° NW
Richardson Monument (Attraction) — 54.5 mi, 174° S
Chena River State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 54.7 mi, 350° N
Airmen's Monument (Monument) — 64.9 mi, 321° NW
POW-MIA Memorial (Monument) — 64.9 mi, 321° NW
Heritage Park/Global Engagement (Monument) — 64.9 mi, 321° NW
Lady of the Lake B-29 Superfortress (Public Artwork) — 66.1 mi, 321° NW
Gulkana River (Wild & Scenic River) — 71.6 mi, 186° S · 93k acres
Two Rivers Sports Complex (Local Park) — 71.8 mi, 332° NW
Steese National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 74.2 mi, 002° N · 1.2M acres

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