2017 Map of Bettles A-2 SW

About this map

The Alaskan interior within the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area is defined by its dramatic verticality and lack of human infrastructure in this 2017 survey. The landscape is structured by the Public Land Survey System grids of T15n R16w, T15n R15w, T14n R16w, and T14n R15w, which carve the high-elevation terrain into systematic administrative blocks. This quadrangle captures a purely natural environment where the contour lines are the primary data, revealing a complex network of ridgelines and drainages that have remained largely undisturbed by road development or settlement. For researchers of the Brooks Range foothills, this map provides an exacting look at the topographic character of the region as it existed in the early 21st century, prior to any modern anthropogenic changes.