Wrangell County, Alaska Map
Explore Wrangell County, Alaska with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 1 cities and towns in Wrangell County below.
Interactive Map of Wrangell County, Alaska
| County | Wrangell |
| State | Alaska (AK) |
| County Seat | Wrangell |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 56.470833 |
| Longitude | -132.376667 |
| Cities & Towns | 1 |
| Area Codes | 907 |
About Wrangell County, Alaska
Wrangell Borough occupies a rugged expanse of the Alaskan Panhandle, defined by the relentless meeting of the North Pacific and the steep, forested slopes of the Coast Mountains. This is a landscape of glacier-cut fjords where the water holds a deep, ink-colored stillness, broken only by the sudden, silver flash of salmon returning to natal streams. To the east, the border follows the jagged spine of the mountains, separating this territory from the vast, frozen interior of British Columbia. The terrain is a vertical mosaic of hemlock and spruce, where the subarctic light at dusk possesses a peculiar, metallic clarity, turning the peaks a bruised violet before the long shadows of the taiga reclaim the valleys.
Wrangell Borough emerged as a unified administrative entity relatively recently, though its human history is layered with the deep presence of the Tlingit people and the subsequent arrivals of fur traders, gold seekers, and timber workers. The seat of government remains a historic port that has weathered successive waves of boom and bust, its identity forged by the constant flux of the tides and the isolation of a geography that resists easy transit. Through decades of shifting industry, the town has maintained a quiet resilience, its buildings huddled against the shoreline as if watching for the next ship to emerge from the mist. The history here is not a static record but a living sequence of arrivals and departures, marked by the persistent, rhythmic clang of harbor machinery that punctuates the otherwise heavy silence of the surrounding wilderness.
Economic life in this region is tethered to the sea and the timbered slopes, requiring a pragmatic ingenuity that recognizes the scale of the environment as a constant, looming factor. Residents move through their days with an awareness of the raven and the grizzly, whose territories overlap with the human sphere, demanding a mutual, if wary, respect. Public life centers around the docks and the seasonal cycles of harvest, where the air smells of salt, wet cedar, and the faint, sharp tang of diesel fuel from the bush planes that ferry supplies to remote outposts. It is a place of immense, indifferent beauty, where the sheer size of the geography dwarfs the human endeavor, compelling those who remain to find purpose in the small, necessary tasks of daily survival amidst the vastness.
Cities and Towns in Wrangell County
About This Wrangell County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Wrangell County, Alaska alongside links to detailed street maps for 1 cities and towns. The county seat is Wrangell. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
