Twin Hills Alaska Map

About Twin Hills, Alaska

Twin Hills is a locality in Dillingham, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 103. The population density is 1.7 people per km². Twin Hills is located at 59.0792°N, 160.2750°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99576.

Twin Hills occupies a vast, hushed expanse of tundra and low-lying brush, defined by a landscape that stretches toward the horizon in muted shades of ochre and olive. It lies 385.7 miles west-southwest of Anchorage, AK (from Anchorage, AK: bearing 252°T), and is situated 64.6 miles west of Dillingham. The earth here feels ancient and indifferent, shaped by the slow, grinding passage of seasons that leave the ground frozen for much of the year. Two miles away, the Togiak River winds through the lowlands, its waters cutting a dark, serpentine path that sustains the local ecology, while the distant, jagged silhouette of the Gechiak Mountains provides a permanent, stoic boundary to the west. The light at dusk holds a particular clarity, turning the sky a bruised lavender and casting long, thin shadows that seem to anchor Twin Hills to the stillness of the interior.

Life in Twin Hills remains deeply connected to the protections afforded by the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, an immense wilderness that dictates the rhythm of the seasons and the preservation of the surrounding habitat. Residents here maintain a subsistence-based lifestyle, gathering resources from the land and water in a cycle that has persisted for generations, long before the modern influence of bush planes or regional commerce arrived. While Nunavachak Lake rests silently fifteen miles away, the daily concerns of those who live in Twin Hills are tethered to the shifting migration patterns of wildlife and the unpredictable temper of the subarctic climate. There is a profound, unadorned integrity to the way the people here organize their days, favoring the quiet endurance of the interior over the clamor of more crowded places.

About This Twin Hills Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Twin Hills, Alaska. Coordinates: 59.079167, -160.275. 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 Twin Hills includes the ZIP code (99576), telephone area code (907), county seat of Dillingham, and school district assignment (Southwest Region 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.