Ruby Alaska Map

About Ruby, Alaska

Ruby is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 139. The population density is 7.6 people per km². Ruby is located at 64.7233°N, 155.5005°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. Ruby is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99768.

Ruby occupies a rugged stretch of land where the earth rises in quiet, frost-bitten slopes above the water. It lies 226.1 miles west of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 271°T). Ruby Creek carves a narrow, dark path through the terrain, its banks lined with the dense, somber green of spruce and the pale, slender trunks of birch that shiver in the subarctic light. To the south, the immense distance is punctuated only by the faint, jagged silhouette of the Alaska Range, a distant blue memory against the horizon. Ten miles away, the stillness of Totakdagrich Cachegen Lake reflects a sky that seems to possess a greater depth here than anywhere else, while the nearby expanse of the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge offers a vast, untamed sanctuary for the raven and the grizzly.

Gold brought the first determined souls to Ruby, leaving behind a legacy of abandoned shafts and the persistent, hopeful labor of those who still look to the earth for their living. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, where the arrival of a bush plane is often the most significant event of the day, signaling a connection to the outside world. Life proceeds with a deliberate, tempered pace, shaped by the proximity of the wilderness and the deep, silent cold of the interior. Even the shadows cast by the nearby Melozitna Canyon seem to stretch with a slow, heavy gravity, reminding those who inhabit this place that they are small participants in a landscape that has existed long before their arrival and will surely endure long after.

About This Ruby Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ruby, Alaska. Coordinates: 64.72329, -155.50054. 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 Ruby includes the ZIP code (99768), telephone area code (907), county seat of Yukon-Koyukuk, and school district assignment (Yukon-Koyukuk 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.