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The Alaska water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
North Fork East Fork Chandalar River – 54 miles (87 km) Wind River – 80 miles (130 km) Junjik River – 65 miles (105 km) Middle Fork Chandalar River – 102 miles (164 km) North Fork Chandalar River – 104 miles (167 km) Christian River – 140 miles (230 km) Porcupine River – 569 miles (916 km) Grass River – 39 miles (63 km)
Date: 29 February 2020: Source: Own work. this census.gov source was used to determine change effective from January 02, 2019; this data.census.gov source was used for the boundaries, but as noted on the first source "The Census Bureau does not have maps illustrating the boundary changes listed on this web page" - however I deemed it reasonable that the boundaries are likely to follow the ...
Map of Geography of Alaska - PDF. Of the remaining land area, the State of Alaska owns 24.5%; another 10% is managed by thirteen regional and dozens of local Native corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Various private interests own the remaining land, totaling less than 1%.
This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States . [A] [ 1 ]
The Alexander Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг Александра) is a 300-mile (480 km) long archipelago (group of islands) in North America lying off the southeastern coast of Alaska. It contains about 1,100 islands, the tops of submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean .
Southwest Alaska includes a huge swath of terrain 500 miles (800 km) from the western Bering Sea coast to Cook Inlet.Although much of the region is coastal, it also includes tens of thousands of square miles of interior boreal forests, swamps, and highlands, and the immense mountain barrier of the southern Alaska/Aleutian Range.
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough.Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses Planning Regions and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]