Four Mile Road Alaska Map

About Four Mile Road, Alaska

Four Mile Road is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 18. The population density is 6.0 people per km². Four Mile Road is located at 64.6045°N, 149.1223°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99760.

Four Mile Road extends as a stark, gravel-hewn artery through the dense, subarctic silence of the interior, where the horizon stretches toward the distant, jagged silhouette of the Alaska Range. It lies 42.6 miles west-southwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 246°T), and is situated 44.5 miles west-southwest of Fairbanks. The air here holds a brittle, crystalline quality that sharpens the edges of the surrounding taiga, turning the spruce needles into fine, dark needles against an expansive, pale sky. Only a mile away, the West Middle River cuts a low, insistent path through the sediment, its waters moving with a cold, liquid gravity that dictates the flow of the local terrain. The landscape remains dominated by the immense, quiet reach of the Tanana Valley State Forest, where the trees stand in hushed, watchful ranks, indifferent to the infrequent passage of heavy machinery or the occasional, wandering shadow of a raven.

Human presence at Four Mile Road persists as a thin, resilient thread woven into the rugged fabric of this interior wilderness. Life here is defined by the necessity of preparation and the slow, deliberate rhythm of an economy tethered to land management and the maintenance of vital infrastructure. Residents look toward the Nenana City Pond when the thaw arrives, a modest, singular basin of stillness that provides a focal point for the quiet rituals of the season. History in this expanse is not measured in grand monuments, but in the persistent survival of those who navigate the vast, inland distances. Four Mile Road endures as a practical, unadorned waypoint, where the passage of time is marked less by the calendar and more by the encroaching frost and the deepening amber light of the long, fading afternoons.

About This Four Mile Road Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Four Mile Road, Alaska. Coordinates: 64.6045, -149.1223. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Four Mile Road includes the ZIP code (99760), telephone area code (907), county seat of Yukon-Koyukuk, and school district assignment (Yukon-Koyukuk School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.