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Koyukuk Alaska Map

Explore Koyukuk, 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 Koyukuk, Alaska

How to Use This Koyukuk, Alaska Map

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

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	Koyukuk
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Yukon-Koyukuk
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	64.902107
Longitude	-157.693474
Population	98
Density	6.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99754
Area Code	907
School District	Yukon-Koyukuk School District

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About Koyukuk, Alaska

Koyukuk is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 98. The population density is 6.6 people per km². Koyukuk is located at 64.9021°N, 157.6935°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Koyukuk is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99754.

Koyukuk occupies a quiet expanse of interior land where the horizon remains vast and unburdened by the jagged geometry of distant peaks. It lies 290.2 miles west of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 275°T). The landscape surrounding Koyukuk unfolds in a mosaic of taiga and tundra, where the stillness of the air is punctuated only by the occasional passage of a raven or the shifting light that defines the subarctic day. Five miles away, the Koyukuk River carves a deliberate path through the earth, its presence felt in the damp, cool breath that rises from the lowlands during the twilight hours. To the south, the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge serves as a silent guardian of the terrain, maintaining an immense, untamed scale that seems to dwarf the modest footprint of human endeavor.

Life in Koyukuk persists in a rhythm dictated by the seasons and the land, reflecting a history deeply rooted in the traditions of the river and the surrounding wilderness. The local economy and daily existence rely upon a profound connection to the environment, where the Over the Hill Portage remains a physical reminder of the paths traveled by those who came before. While the Alaska Range lingers as a faint, icy suggestion far to the south, the people of Koyukuk find their immediate context in the wood-smoke scent of winter and the brief, urgent vibrancy of the short summer. There is a singular, enduring quality to the place, a quiet resilience that persists even as the modern world arrives by bush plane, leaving the community to exist in a space that feels both timeless and entirely its own.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Innoko National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 3.2 mi, 182° S · 8.1M acres
Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.1 mi, 360° N · 8.0M acres
Gisasa River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 15.4 mi, 328° NW
Dulbi-Kaiyuh Mountains Subunit Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 26.6 mi, 132° SE
Koyukuk Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 38.1 mi, 001° N · 380k acres

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