THE FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Interior Highlands setting.
Fairbanks North Star Borough has 7,335 square miles of land in Alaska. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Fairbanks North Star Borough: Interior Highlands, Interior Bottomlands, Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands.
Low rounded mountains alternate with rugged high points and open spruce or tundra vegetation. Higher summits retain landforms shaped by past glaciation.
Regional context: Interior Highlands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Fairbanks North Star Borough intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Interior Highlands56.4%
- Interior Bottomlands27.9%
- Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands15.7%
Interior Bottomlands in Fairbanks North Star Borough
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.
Read the regional source ↗Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands in Fairbanks North Star Borough
Interior Alaska's lowlands and uplands form a varied mosaic of spruce, hardwoods and wet areas. Local relief, surface water and ground conditions create substantial differences across this broad inland region.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Fairbanks North Star Borough
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fairbanks North Star Borough, including Harding-Birch Lakes, Steele Creek, Goldstream. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fairbanks North Star Borough by land and water
The Census records 99.9 square miles of water within Fairbanks North Star Borough, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Fairbanks North Star Borough’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fairbanks North Star Borough has 97.5 times the land area of nearby Salcha CDP (75.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Denali Borough, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.