Nome Alaska Map

About Nome, Alaska

Nome is a locality in Nome, Alaska, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,699. The population density is 111.6 people per km². Nome is located at 64.5011°N, 165.4064°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Nome) timezone. Nome is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99762.

Nome anchors the vast, sprawling expanse of the subarctic interior, where the land stretches out in a quiet, unforgiving rhythm of tundra and permafrost. It lies 519.1 miles west of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 275°T). The terrain surrounding Nome remains defined by the persistent flow of the Snake River, which carves a path through the low-lying plains as it snakes toward the horizon. To the north, the distant profile of the Nome Mountains cuts a jagged silhouette against the wide, pale sky, their peaks often shrouded in a light, shifting mist. Seven miles away, Twin Lakes reflect the long, slanted rays of the sun, their still surfaces providing a rare clarity in a landscape otherwise dominated by the muted earth tones of brush and stone. The air here holds a crisp, biting sharpness, carrying the scent of damp moss and the stillness of a place where the scale of the earth hums with a silent, immense weight.

Anvil City Square Park serves as the central gathering point for Nome, marking a spot where the heavy legacy of gold extraction lingers in the soil. Nearby, the scarred earth of Rocker Gulch stands as a silent witness to the frantic industry that once defined the regional economy, leaving behind a topography shaped by human ambition and the relentless extraction of mineral wealth. While the fever of the past has cooled, the local character remains forged in the resilience required to thrive in such a secluded interior, where life moves according to the demands of the seasons rather than the pace of the outside world. Today, the economy sustains itself through a blend of local trade and the enduring necessity of bush travel, with residents navigating the rugged, open plains with a practical, understated grace. Even as the modern world encroaches, Nome retains the austere dignity of a frontier that refuses to be tamed, marked by the persistent, raven-haunted silence of the tundra.

About This Nome Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Nome, Alaska. Coordinates: 64.501111, -165.406389. 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 Nome includes the ZIP code (99762), telephone area code (907), county seat of Nome, and school district assignment (Nome School District).

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.