THE SOUTHEAST FAIRBANKS CENSUS AREA LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Interior Highlands setting.
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area has 24,839.2 square miles of land in Alaska. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Southeast Fairbanks Census Area: Interior Highlands, Alaska Range, Interior Bottomlands, among others.
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
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Interior Highlands53.2%
- Alaska Range19.2%
- Interior Bottomlands9.1%
- Ogilvie Mountains6.6%
- Wrangell Mountains6%
Alaska Range in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
Very high, steep mountains carry extensive icefields, glaciers and rocky slopes. Vegetation is limited in the highest and most exposed portions of the Alaska Range.
Read the regional source ↗Interior Bottomlands in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
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 ↗Finding your parcel within Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, including Deltana, Dot Lake, Northway. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area by land and water
The Census records 282.4 square miles of water within Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Southeast Fairbanks Census Area’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area has 5,676.2 times the land area of nearby Dot Lake Village CDP (4.38 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Copper River Census Area, Denali Borough, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.