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Kwethluk Alaska Map

Explore Kwethluk, 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 Kwethluk, Alaska

How to Use This Kwethluk, Alaska Map

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

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	Kwethluk
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Bethel
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	60.793231
Longitude	-161.430844
Population	812
Density	30.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99621
Area Code	907
School District	Lower Kuskokwim School District

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About Kwethluk, Alaska

Kwethluk is a locality in Bethel, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 812. The population density is 30.8 people per km². Kwethluk is located at 60.7932°N, 161.4308°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Kwethluk is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99621.

Kwethluk occupies a low-lying expanse of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, where the terrestrial world dissolves into a vast, intricate mosaic of tundra and spruce-darkened woodland. It lies 386.7 miles west of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 271°T), and is situated 10.9 miles east of Bethel. The land breathes through a network of saturated earth and mossy hummocks, stretching toward the jagged, distant outline of Three Step Mountain that anchors the horizon in a haze of violet and charcoal. The Kwethluk River threads through this stillness, a serpentine vein of silt-heavy water that dictates the movement and rhythm of the landscape, carving deep, quiet curves through the silt. Even in the height of summer, the air holds a sharp, crystalline edge, and the light at dusk bleeds a bruised gold across the flat horizon, turning the wet grasses into a field of flickering, metallic needles.

Kwethluk remains defined by the endurance of its people, who have long maintained a life tuned to the seasonal pulses of the interior wilderness. The local economy relies on a deep, traditional knowledge of the land, where the harvest of berries and the seasonal cycles of the region provide a foundational stability, supplemented by the arrival of bush planes that serve as the primary link to the outside world. Ten miles away, the quiet surface of Hangar Lake reflects the sudden, shifting moods of the subarctic sky, undisturbed by the mechanical hum that occasionally breaks the silence of the village. Life here moves with the gravity of the river, a persistence of culture and custom that remains anchored in the immense, unyielding scale of the refuge, where the raven remains the true sentinel of the woods and the rhythm of the day is measured by the slow, inevitable turn of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.2 mi, 003° N · 62.7M acres
Pinky'S Park (Local Park) — 11.8 mi, 271° W
Suurvik Cinema At Kipusvik (Cinema) — 11.9 mi, 268° W
Bethel Administrative Site (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.5 mi, 267° W · 3 acres
Southwest Peregrine Falcon Habitat Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 60.6 mi, 358° N
Togiak Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 65.1 mi, 180° S · 2.4M acres

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