Kiana Alaska Map

About Kiana, Alaska

Kiana is a locality in Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 447. The population density is 918.0 people per km². Kiana is located at 66.9750°N, 160.4228°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Kiana is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99749.

Kiana occupies a stark, expansive reach of the subarctic interior where the land stretches toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Brooks Range. It lies 383.9 miles west-northwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 298°T), and is situated 59.1 miles east of Kotzebue. The landscape around Kiana is defined by the persistent, hushed presence of the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, a vast expanse of tundra and boreal forest that shapes the way the seasons turn. Only a mile away, the Squirrel River carves a serpentine path through the earth, its waters moving with a quiet, icy resolve that dictates the rhythm of the surrounding wilds. Here, the light of late afternoon possesses a particular, heavy clarity, turning the low-growing willows into silhouettes of oxidized copper against a sky that seems to possess an immense, unyielding depth.

Kiana maintains a life tethered to the ancient currents of the Iñupiat people, whose ancestors navigated these inland plains long before the arrival of modern bush planes. The economy remains deeply rooted in the traditional harvest of the land, supplemented by the realities of a remote, resource-dependent existence where goods arrive by air and the seasons dictate every movement. In the quiet hours of the day, the pulse of Kiana is found in the communal knowledge passed down through generations, an unspoken understanding of the migration patterns and the subtle shifts in the permafrost. It is a place where the scale of the wilderness humbles human endeavor, leaving the residents to thrive in a delicate, persistent balance with the vast, quiet geography that surrounds them.

About This Kiana Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kiana, Alaska. Coordinates: 66.975, -160.422778. 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 Kiana includes the ZIP code (99749), telephone area code (907), county seat of Northwest Arctic, and school district assignment (Northwest Arctic 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.