 Pilot Station is located at (61.936050, -162.883403), on the northern bank of the lower Yukon River, approximately eighty miles ('as the crow flies') from the Bering Sea.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (25.55%) is water.Pilot Station first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Inuit village of "Ankahchagmiut."