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Kiana Alaska Map

Explore Kiana, 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 Kiana, Alaska

How to Use This Kiana, Alaska Map

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

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	Kiana
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Northwest Arctic
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	66.975
Longitude	-160.422778
Population	447
Density	918.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99749
Area Code	907
School District	Northwest Arctic Borough School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Selawik National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.1 mi, 171° S · 5.4M acres
Kobuk Valley Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 15.2 mi, 090° E · 183k acres
Selawik Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 15.2 mi, 093° E · 242k acres
Kobuk Valley National Park (National Park) — 15.8 mi, 024° NE · 1.7M acres
Noatak National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 41.2 mi, 001° N · 6.5M acres
Nulato Hills (Ksp) Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 59.1 mi, 171° S

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