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Red Dog Mine Alaska Map

Explore Red Dog Mine, 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 Red Dog Mine, Alaska

How to Use This Red Dog Mine, Alaska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Red Dog Mine, 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 Red Dog Mine.

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	Red Dog Mine
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Northwest Arctic
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Nome)

Latitude	68.064411
Longitude	-162.866869
Population	5
Density	1.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99752
Area Code	907
School District	Northwest Arctic Borough School District

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About Red Dog Mine, Alaska

Red Dog Mine is a locality in Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 5. The population density is 1.8 people per km². Red Dog Mine is located at 68.0644°N, 162.8669°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Nome) timezone. ZIP code: 99752.

Red Dog Mine anchors itself within a vast, treeless expanse where the earth wears a mantle of lichen and frost-shattered stone. It lies 469.4 miles northwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 305°T), and is situated 81.6 miles north of Kotzebue. The landscape stretches out in muted, subarctic colors, dominated by the stark, jagged silhouette of Anxiety Ridge rising to the east. Nearby, the waters of Red Dog Creek carve a narrow, mineral-stained path through the tundra, their movement a quiet, persistent rustle against the silence of the high plains. Beneath an immense sky that bleeds into shades of bruised violet and pale amber at dusk, the ground feels ancient and indifferent, holding the chill of the permafrost even as the brief, intense sun touches the scrub.

Industrial purpose defines the rhythm of Red Dog Mine, a site carved from the earth to harvest the concentrated wealth of zinc and lead buried deep within the strata. Operations here exist as a stark, human-made contrast to the untamed reaches of the Noatak Wilderness Area, which begins its protected sprawl just a few miles away. The economy of the region hinges on this extraction, drawing a transient, hard-working population into a cycle of shifts that ignore the clock, dictated instead by the unforgiving demands of the machinery. Life here is measured by the steady hum of transport and the slow, deliberate work of reclaiming the land, leaving the surrounding hills to the raven and the occasional wandering grizzly while the mine continues its singular, quiet labor.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Noatak Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 8.8 mi, 024° NE · 5.8M acres
Noatak National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 024° NE · 6.5M acres
Cape Krusenstern National Monument (National Monument) — 20.1 mi, 202° S · 1.3M acres
Western Arctic Caribou Insect Relief Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 22.9 mi, 360° N

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