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Napaskiak Alaska Map

Explore Napaskiak, 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 Napaskiak, Alaska

How to Use This Napaskiak, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	60.708056
Longitude	-161.766111
Population	509
Density	67.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99559
Area Code	907
School District	Lower Kuskokwim School District

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About Napaskiak, Alaska

Napaskiak is a locality in Bethel, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 509. The population density is 67.8 people per km². Napaskiak is located at 60.7081°N, 161.7661°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Napaskiak is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99559.

Napaskiak emerges from the flat, sprawling expanse of the subarctic tundra like a quiet assertion against the vastness of the interior. It lies 398.9 miles west of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 270°T), and is situated 5.8 miles south of Bethel. The landscape surrounding Napaskiak is defined by a low, rhythmic horizon where the sky holds a heavy, pressurized quality, turning the late afternoon light into a bruised and beautiful violet. To the west, the terrain holds the dark, brooding promise of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, a sprawling expanse of protected wild that dictates the seasonal pulse of the region. Only six miles to the east, the stillness of Arthur Dall Lake provides a singular, silver anchor in a world otherwise composed of shifting brush and endless, moss-covered plains.

Life in Napaskiak is governed by the persistent, unyielding pace of a subsistence economy, where the cycles of the land determine the movement of the people. Families here maintain a deep, ancestral connection to the rhythm of the local streams, harvesting the bounty of the earth with a quiet efficiency that has persisted through generations. The architecture of the village remains simple and pragmatic, designed to withstand the biting temperatures that define the long, dark winters of this interior reach. Education and communal gathering points serve as the vital infrastructure for the residents, who navigate the vast, roadless distance between their homes and the wider world by small aircraft. In the stillness of a winter evening, when the aurora flickers above the tundra, the permanence of the culture in Napaskiak feels as heavy and grounding as the permafrost beneath the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.0 mi, 003° N · 62.7M acres
Bethel Administrative Site (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.4 mi, 347° N · 3 acres
Suurvik Cinema At Kipusvik (Cinema) — 5.5 mi, 354° N
Pinky'S Park (Local Park) — 6.1 mi, 355° N
Togiak Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 59.6 mi, 173° S · 2.4M acres
Southwest Peregrine Falcon Habitat Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 67.2 mi, 008° N

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