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Lake Minchumina Alaska Map

Explore Lake Minchumina, 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 Lake Minchumina, Alaska

How to Use This Lake Minchumina, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	63.790253
Longitude	-152.461794
Population	30
Density	0.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99757
Area Code	907
School District	Iditarod Area School District

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About Lake Minchumina, Alaska

Lake Minchumina is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 30. The population density is 0.1 people per km². Lake Minchumina is located at 63.7903°N, 152.4618°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99757.

Lake Minchumina reflects the expansive subarctic sky across its vast, still surface, serving as the central anchor for a landscape defined by muskeg and dense boreal forest. It lies 150.6 miles west-southwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 246°T), and is situated 152.4 miles west-southwest of Fairbanks. The surrounding terrain, characterized by low-lying wetlands and thickets of black spruce, stretches toward the horizon where the jagged, snow-dusted peaks of the Alaska Range emerge as a pale, distant silhouette. Deep Creek winds through the mossy floor of this basin just a mile away, its movement slow and deliberate as it threads through the hushed expanse of the interior. The air here carries a sharp, metallic clarity, especially when the low-angled sun turns the frost on the willow branches into a brief, brilliant display of light before the long, blue-shadowed dusk takes hold.

Human presence at Lake Minchumina is defined by a quiet, self-reliant existence, far removed from the clamor of industrial centers and sustained by the rhythms of the seasons. History here is marked by the persistence of those who navigated the interior, relying on the land’s resources and the seasonal migrations that have shaped life in the shadow of the Denali National Preserve, which lies only five miles away. Economic life remains tethered to the bush plane and the small-scale gathering of the forest’s bounty, a lifestyle that demands a profound intimacy with the changing weather and the deep, insulating silence of the winter months. Life in Lake Minchumina moves with the deliberate pace of a place that is not measured by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable shift of the light and the enduring character of the wilderness that surrounds it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Denali National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 180° S · 1.3M acres
Denali National Park (National Park) — 32.1 mi, 165° S · 4.7M acres
Denali Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 37.2 mi, 168° S · 2.1M acres
Sulukna River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 42.9 mi, 295° NW
Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.4 mi, 347° N · 3.8M acres
McKinley River Bar trail start (Attraction) — 54.5 mi, 114° SE
Redlands Lake Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 61.3 mi, 004° N
Stony Overlook (Viewpoint) — 72.3 mi, 108° E
Ruth Glacier Landing (Attraction) — 77.6 mi, 136° SE

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