THE RUSSIAN MISSION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Interior Bottomlands setting.
Russian Mission city has 5.37 square miles of land in Kusilvak Census Area. Its Census reference point is in Interior Bottomlands.
Nearly level river bottomlands contain oxbow lakes, thaw lakes and wet areas. Spruce and hardwood stands mix with shrub thickets along interior Alaska's larger rivers.
Regional context: Interior Bottomlands ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Russian Mission and Kusilvak Census Area
Russian Mission is associated with Kusilvak Census Area in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Russian Mission by land and water
The Census records 0.36 square miles of water within Russian Mission, or 6.3% of its total area. It is 6.5 percentage points lower than the 12.8% recorded for Kusilvak Census Area. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Russian Mission city has 1.3 times the land area of nearby Marshall city (4.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

