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Nulato Alaska Map

Explore Nulato, 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 Nulato, Alaska

How to Use This Nulato, Alaska Map

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

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

Latitude	64.691283
Longitude	-158.27535
Population	239
Density	2.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99765
Area Code	907
School District	Yukon-Koyukuk School District

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About Nulato, Alaska

Nulato is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 239. The population density is 2.2 people per km². Nulato is located at 64.6913°N, 158.2754°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Nulato is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99765.

Nulato commands a quiet presence where the thick, dark embrace of the boreal forest meets the banks of Mukluk Creek. It lies 303.0 miles west of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 273°T). The air here holds a thin, crystalline quality, sharpening the edges of the spruce needles and the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Alaska Range that haunt the horizon like half-remembered dreams. Beyond the immediate clearing, the vast, unbroken wild of the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge stretches out, a silent expanse of muskeg and stunted timber that seems to swallow the sound of any footfall. On a clear day, the light does not merely fall; it clings to the landscape, turning the low, grey sky into a burnished mirror that reflects the stillness of the interior. Even the memory of Skinny Fish Lake, miles away in the deep woods, feels heavy in the atmosphere, suggesting a world defined by the slow, deliberate movement of earth and ice rather than the frantic pace of the outside world.

Nulato carries the enduring legacy of the Koyukon Athabascan people, whose generations have shaped their lives around the seasonal rhythms of the land and the endurance required by the subarctic winters. The local economy persists through a disciplined reliance on the bounty of the woods and the persistence of traditional practices, where the modern hum of a bush plane is often the only disruption to a long-standing solitude. History here is not written in stone, but in the collective memory of a people who have learned to navigate the immense scale of the interior, finding sustenance in the brush and the quiet work of daily survival. In Nulato, life moves with the gravity of the seasons, a steady and unyielding cycle that demands resilience and offers, in return, a profound, unadorned connection to the vast wilderness that surrounds it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Innoko National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 3.2 mi, 170° S · 8.1M acres
Gisasa River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 18.6 mi, 001° N
Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.2 mi, 013° N · 8.0M acres
Kateel River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 27.1 mi, 340° N
Unalakleet River (Wild & Scenic River) — 36.4 mi, 229° SW · 45k acres
Koyukuk Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 56.4 mi, 015° N · 380k acres
Innoko Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 73.1 mi, 175° S · 1.3M acres

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