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Nanwalek Alaska Map

Explore Nanwalek, 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 Nanwalek, Alaska

How to Use This Nanwalek, Alaska Map

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

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	Nanwalek
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Kenai Peninsula
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	59.333848
Longitude	-151.929558
Population	247
Density	11.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99603
Area Code	907
School District	Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

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About Nanwalek, Alaska

Nanwalek is a locality in Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 247. The population density is 11.4 people per km². Nanwalek is located at 59.3338°N, 151.9296°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99603.

Nanwalek occupies a rugged, wind-swept stretch of shoreline where the land yields abruptly to the gray, churning expanse of the Pacific Ocean. It lies 146.0 miles south-southwest of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 209°T), and is situated 23.7 miles south-southwest of Homer. The landscape is defined by the proximity of the sea and the raw, unadorned presence of the English Bay River, which carves a path through the earth just a mile away before emptying its silt-laden waters into the tides. Beyond the immediate rocky beach, the horizon is punctuated by the distant, snow-dusted silhouette of the Kenai Mountains, a jagged line that seems to hold the sky in place. Passage Island sits visible in the offshore mist, a silent sentinel that guards the entrance to the local waters, while the atmosphere remains heavy with the scent of salt and the damp, cool respiration of the subarctic air.

Nanwalek carries the weight of a long-standing Alutiiq heritage, an ancestral resilience that informs the daily rhythms of life and labor. The local economy remains tethered to the sea, as generations have organized their sustenance around the seasonal cycles of salmon and the bounty of the nearby Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Though the modern world makes its presence known through the occasional drone of a bush plane, the village maintains a quiet, deliberate pace, far removed from the frantic pulse of larger commerce. Residents move with the tide, cognizant of the vast, indifferent scale of the geography that surrounds them, while the distant shimmer of Beluga Lake remains a quiet, inland mystery tucked away in the wilderness.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 6.4 mi, 013° N
Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.5 mi, 014° N
Seldovia Boardwalk (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 047° NE
Seldovia Village Tribe Museum (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 047° NE
Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park (State Conservation Area) — 18.7 mi, 078° E
Kachemak Bay State Park (State Park) — 19.0 mi, 055° NE
Great Midden (Historic Ruins) — 19.8 mi, 050° NE
Yukon Island Dig (Historic Ruins) — 20.1 mi, 051° NE
Baycrest Overlook (Viewpoint) — 24.5 mi, 025° NE
Pratt Museum (Museum) — 25.3 mi, 032° NE
Homer Theater (Cinema) — 25.4 mi, 032° NE
Alaska Ultimate Safaris (Attraction) — 25.7 mi, 034° NE
Alaska Bear Viewing Tours (Attraction) — 25.7 mi, 044° NE
Seafarer's Memorial (Monument) — 25.7 mi, 044° NE
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.2 mi, 184° S · 13.7M acres
Experience Gallery (Gallery) — 30.1 mi, 053° NE
Diana Tillion Art Gallery (Gallery) — 30.2 mi, 053° NE
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.3 mi, 077° E · 3.9M acres
Andrew Simons Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 31.3 mi, 077° E · 1.1M acres
Kachemak Bay Fee (Conservation Area) — 31.6 mi, 040° NE
Kenai Fjords National Park (National Park) — 34.2 mi, 078° E · 601k acres
Shuyak Island State Park (State Park) — 48.9 mi, 196° S
Boat Launch (Attraction) — 50.2 mi, 010° N
Lake Clark National Park (National Park) — 52.1 mi, 334° NW · 2.5M acres
Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 53.6 mi, 327° NW · 2.6M acres

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