Kasaan Alaska Map

About Kasaan, Alaska

Kasaan is a locality in Prince of Wales-Hyder, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 30. The population density is 1.9 people per km². Kasaan is located at 55.5611°N, 132.4068°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Sitka) timezone. Kasaan is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99919.

Kasaan occupies a quiet expanse of dense, ancient woodland where the air holds the permanent, cool scent of damp moss and cedar. It lies 205.5 miles south-southeast of Juneau, AK (from Juneau, AK: bearing 157°T), and is situated 32.6 miles west-northwest of Ketchikan. Linkum Creek carves a narrow, silver path through the terrain, its waters moving with a deliberate, steady weight that defines the immediate geography of the settlement. Beyond the dense thicket of the Tongass National Forest, which presses against the edge of the clearing, the land lifts into a series of shadowed ridges that roll toward the distant, hazy silhouette of California Ridge. The light here arrives in long, slanted beams, turning the bark of the spruce trees to a deep, burnished copper before the subarctic dusk settles, heavy and absolute, over the floor of the valley.

Kasaan carries the weight of a long human history, visible in the weathered cedar structures that anchor the landscape to its ancestral roots. The economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the forest, where the extraction of timber and the careful stewardship of the land have dictated the pace of life for generations. Residents move with a quiet, measured focus, mindful of the four-mile distance to Ives Lake, where the water mirrors the shifting gray of the sky with startling clarity. Everything in Kasaan feels suspended in a singular, timeless stillness, a place where the immense scale of the surrounding wilderness dictates the terms of existence, dwarfing the small, persistent patterns of those who have made this woodland their home.

About This Kasaan Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kasaan, Alaska. Coordinates: 55.561145, -132.406834. 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 Kasaan includes the ZIP code (99919), telephone area code (907), county seat of Prince of Wales-Hyder, and school district assignment (Southeast Island 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.