McCarthy Alaska Map
Explore McCarthy, 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 McCarthy, Alaska
How to Use This McCarthy, Alaska Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for McCarthy, 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 McCarthy.
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 | McCarthy |
| State | Alaska (AK) |
| County | Copper River |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) |
| Latitude | 61.453957 |
| Longitude | -142.864693 |
| Population | 107 |
| Density | 0.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 99566 |
| Area Code | 907 |
| School District | Copper River School District |
About McCarthy, Alaska
McCarthy is a locality in Copper River, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 107. The population density is 0.3 people per km². McCarthy is located at 61.4540°N, 142.8647°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99566.McCarthy endures as a rugged threshold where the persistent rush of McCarthy Creek carves through the earth, marking the pulse of a landscape defined by immense, silent scale. It lies 210.5 miles east of North Lakes, AK (from North Lakes, AK: bearing 91°T), and is situated 115.7 miles east-northeast of Valdez. The air here holds a crisp, subarctic clarity, thinning as the land rises toward the distant, jagged silhouette of the Wrangell Mountains. Within the vast expanse of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve, the ground is a tapestry of taiga and tundra, where the low-slung light of late afternoon turns the gray gravel bars into streaks of tarnished silver. Thirteen miles upstream, the ancient ice of McCarthy Creek Glacier anchors the horizon, a frozen sentinel overlooking the deep, quiet basins like Fivemile Gulch that fracture the surrounding wilderness.
McCarthy retains the weathered ghost-wood architecture of a copper-boom era, standing as a defiant relic of a time when the ground was torn open for its mineral wealth. Today, the economy has shifted from the extraction of ore to a slow, deliberate stewardship of the wilderness, where the passage of time is measured by the seasonal shift of shadows rather than the ticking of a clock. Life in McCarthy remains tethered to the bush plane and the fundamental necessity of self-reliance, with the local character shaped by those who prefer the company of raven and grizzly to the noise of the modern world. The remnants of heavy machinery and rusted tracks lie half-submerged in the tall grasses, artifacts of a frantic past now surrendered to the slow, relentless reclamation of the northern woods.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — locality lies within · 4.3M acres
- St. Ellias Apline Guides Kennecott Mill Tour (Attraction) — 2.0 mi, 340° N
- Kennicott Wilderness Guides (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 340° N
- Saw mill ruins (Historic Ruins) — 2.2 mi, 339° N
- Assay ruins (Historic Ruins) — 2.2 mi, 341° N
- Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark (Attraction) — 2.3 mi, 340° N
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (National Park) — 3.2 mi, 142° SE · 8.0M acres
- Glacier View 2025 (Viewpoint) — 4.1 mi, 340° N
- Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 5.7 mi, 003° N · 9.7M acres
- Chugach National Forest (National Forest) — 54.3 mi, 214° SW · 5.4M acres
- Bering Glacier Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 63.3 mi, 181° S
- Alaska Yaks (Attraction) — 64.2 mi, 285° W
- Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 73.2 mi, 004° N · 1.5M acres
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About This McCarthy Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of McCarthy, Alaska. Coordinates: 61.453957, -142.864693. 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 McCarthy includes the ZIP code (99566), telephone area code (907), county seat of Copper River, and school district assignment (Copper River School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
