THE YUKON-KOYUKUK CENSUS AREA LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands setting.
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area has 145,767.5 square miles of land in Alaska. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area: Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands, Interior Bottomlands, Interior Highlands, among others.
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.
Regional context: Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Interior Forested Lowlands and Uplands42.9%
- Interior Bottomlands18.8%
- Interior Highlands17.5%
- Brooks Range9.2%
- Yukon Flats8.7%
Interior Bottomlands in Yukon-Koyukuk 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 ↗Interior Highlands in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
Low rounded mountains alternate with rugged high points and open spruce or tundra vegetation. Higher summits retain landforms shaped by past glaciation.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
The atlas lists 38 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, including Livengood, Central, Lake Minchumina. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area by land and water
The Census records 2,110.7 square miles of water within Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, or 1.4% of its total area. That share is close to Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area’s 1.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area has 13,661.4 times the land area of nearby Tanana city (10.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bethel Census Area, Denali Borough, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Kusilvak Census Area, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Nome Census Area, North Slope Borough, Northwest Arctic Borough and other counties within Alaska. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.