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Fort Yukon Alaska Map

Explore Fort Yukon, 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 Yukon, Alaska

How to Use This Fort Yukon, Alaska Map

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

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 Yukon
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Yukon-Koyukuk
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	66.588406
Longitude	-145.227642
Population	428
Density	24.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99740
Area Code	907
School District	Yukon Flats School District

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About Fort Yukon, Alaska

Fort Yukon is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 428. The population density is 24.5 people per km². Fort Yukon is located at 66.5884°N, 145.2276°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Fort Yukon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99740.

Fort Yukon occupies a sprawling, low-lying expanse where the vast, subarctic sky presses down upon the earth with an intensity that renders every stand of spruce and willow distinct. It lies 137.8 miles north-northeast of Badger, AK (from Badger, AK: bearing 27°T), and is situated 138.0 miles north-northeast of Fairbanks. The landscape is defined by the immense, flat basin of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a mosaic of boreal forest and wetlands that stretches toward the horizon, far removed from any temperate influence. Only a mile away, the Upper Mouth Porcupine River winds through the silt-heavy terrain, its waters moving with a deliberate, muscular grace that shapes the soft banks of the interior. Near the quiet stillness of Hospital Lake, the air carries a crisp, metallic edge, sharpening the silhouette of the distant Brooks Range, which lingers as a jagged, pale ghost against the northern sky.

History lingers in Fort Yukon as a persistent memory of the fur trade, an era when the confluence of great waterways served as the vital pulse of commerce and cultural exchange. The local economy persists through a delicate reliance on the land, where the rhythms of subsistence hunting and trapping dictate the passage of seasons more surely than the ticking of a clock. Traditional knowledge remains the bedrock of the Gwich’in people, whose presence here predates the arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company by generations. Life moves at the tempo of the bush plane and the seasonal freeze, a cycle of endurance that favors those who respect the profound silence of the taiga, where the long, golden light of summer evenings seems to hold the world in a state of suspended, amber clarity.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.4 mi, 353° N · 18.2M acres
Crashed Plane (Attraction) — 46.4 mi, 311° NW
Steese National Conservation Area (National Conservation Area) — 53.2 mi, 185° S · 1.2M acres
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 54.3 mi, 001° N · 59.1M acres
Sheenjek River (Wild & Scenic River) — 66.1 mi, 024° NE · 144k acres
Birch Creek (Wild & Scenic River) — 69.6 mi, 161° S · 69k acres
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 73.2 mi, 153° SE · 2.2M acres

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