Iliamna Alaska Map

About Iliamna, Alaska

Iliamna is a locality in Lake and Peninsula, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 108. The population density is 1.1 people per km². Iliamna is located at 59.7783°N, 154.8838°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99606.

Iliamna endures as a quiet expanse of taiga and tundra, where the heavy, subarctic light plays across the earth in long, amber ribbons. It lies 198.1 miles west-southwest of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 242°T), and is situated 132.9 miles west-southwest of Kalifornsky. The landscape remains defined by the immense, dark reach of Lake Iliamna, which dominates the horizon and dictates the slow, deliberate rhythm of the seasons. Only three miles away, the persistent tumble of Petrof Falls provides a constant, rhythmic pulse to the silence, while Roadhouse Creek carves its narrow path through the muskeg. Far to the east, the jagged, snow-dusted edges of the Alaska Range haunt the distant skyline, serving as a reminder of the scale that dwarfs the small, sturdy structures of human settlement.

Iliamna exists as a vital inland crossroads for those navigating the rugged interior, serving as a gateway to the vast, protected wilderness of Lake Clark National Preserve. The economy relies heavily on the steady hum of bush planes, which act as the primary connective fiber for a population that has long adapted to the isolation of the north. Life here is measured by the arrival of supplies and the seasonal shifts in the brush, far from the frantic pace of the outside world. The culture is rooted in a deep, inherited knowledge of the land, where the presence of raven and grizzly remains an unremarkable, everyday reality of existence.

About This Iliamna Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Iliamna, Alaska. Coordinates: 59.778342, -154.883752. 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 Iliamna includes the ZIP code (99606), telephone area code (907), county seat of Lake and Peninsula, and school district assignment (Lake and Peninsula Borough 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.