West Dawson / Sunnydale
A 9.2-hectare (22.8-acre) screening candidate in Quad 116 B/4, about 699 by 373 metres. It rises from 560 to 621 m and faces mostly south and south-east. The nearest mapped road, Rich Man's Road, is 639 m away and O.K. Creek is 835 m away. This file shows the ground in three dimensions, the valley around it, the screening record and a site designer for planning the farm before the application is written.
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- Area
- 9.22 ha (22.8 acres), 699 × 373 m
- Centre
- 64°03′20″ N, 139°31′32″ W
- Elevation
- 560–621 m; median slope 9.2°
- Access
- Rich Man's Road, 639 m (GeoYukon road network)
- Water
- O.K. Creek, 835 m
- Community
- Dawson, 5 km (CGNDB)
- Territory
- Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Government traditional territory
- Terrain
- LiDAR bare earth (NRCan HRDEM)
- Score
- 54.0/100 among the checked search areas
- Screen
- No conflict on checked layers · 4 review flags below
Field-assessed capability mapping over the parcel shows Class 5 and poorer ground (5ZW, 6TP, 6TP/7R, 6ZW). Title needs at least 80% of the parcel to be Class 5 or better; the Branch's soil investigation decides.
The parcel is inside the West Dawson & Sunnydale Local Area Plan and Klondike Valley District Land Use Plan. Confirm the plan's designation allows agricultural land here before applying.
The nearest mapped road, Rich Man's Road, is 639 m away. The rule asks for a maintained road within 1 km; maintenance status is not in the map data.
58% of the parcel slopes 9° or more. Clearing and cultivation are harder there, and the designer flags crops on steep ground.
Checked on 29 Sep 2026 against GeoYukon land tenure (surveyed and titled parcels, dispositions, applications, notations, holds), First Nation Settlement Land, parks, fire history and land-planning layers. A clear result means no conflict was found in those layers on that date. It is not a legal determination of availability. Open the dated evidence file.
The valley
The Government of Yukon's satellite composite, 16 km square around the parcel, draped on ArcticDEM elevation. Vertical scale is doubled.
Yukon Composite 150 cm (SPOT-6/7), Government of Yukon · ArcticDEM v4.1 10 m, Polar Geospatial Center.
Rivers and roads
The longest named features in this 16 km: Yukon River, Top of the World Highway, Klondike River, Swede Creek and Deadwood Creek.
Names from the GeoYukon watercourse and road network layers.
The candidate
The red outline is the 9.2-hectare candidate.
What we checked, and what we found
Every layer below was queried for this outline on 29 Sep 2026. Hard layers block a candidate; flagged and nearby layers are listed above for review. The parcel lies within the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Government traditional territory.
| Layer | How it counts | Result | Queried |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surveyed and titled land parcels | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Titled agricultural parcels | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Active land applications | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Land dispositions | Blocks unless an easement | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Agricultural dispositions | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Agricultural applications | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Development holds | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| First Nation Settlement Land | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| First Nation interim protected land | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Parks and protected areas | Blocks | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Land licences | Flag for review | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Land notations | Flag for review | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Surveyed easements | Flag for review | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Civic addresses | Blocks (address points) | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Local area and land use plans | Flag for review | 2 found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Fire history | Context | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| First Nation traditional territories | Context | 1 found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| First Nation heritage routes (within 500 m) | Nearby | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Settlement Land nearby (within 500 m) | Nearby | None found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
| Field-assessed agricultural capability (within 500 m) | Nearby | 10 found | 2026-09-30 00:14 UTC |
Screened polygon (52 vertices, 9.22 ha) simplified by up to 4 m to 32 corners (9.22 ha). Services: GeoYukon, Government of Yukon. Every row links to the service that was queried in the evidence file.
The ground
The parcel and the ground around it: 1.28 km square on a 1.25 m grid. You can drag to turn the model.
NRCan HRDEM LiDAR bare earth, with the ArcticDEM v4.1 2 m surface for trees and buildings.
Today
Yukon Composite 150 cm satellite imagery. What stands on the parcel now sets how much clearing there is and what timber has to be salvaged.
Agreements for Sale require merchantable timber to be salvaged.
The plan
The same ground drawn as a survey plan: contours every 2 m and the boundary with bearings and distances in metres and chains, with neighbouring Settlement Land and titled lots where they fall in the tile.
A modern drawing in the manner of a Dominion Land Survey plan. It is not a legal survey.
Slope
4% of the parcel is under 6°, which is easy to cultivate. 58% is 9° or steeper.
Summer sun
Clear-sky sunshine from 19 May to 13 September on each 2.5 m cell, compared with flat ground: 1.02 to 1.07 across the parcel. That matters most for a greenhouse and berries.
Where cold air settles
On still nights cold air drains downhill and pools in hollows. Darker blue marks ground lower than its surroundings, where frost comes first; 5% of the parcel is in such a hollow.
Air-drainage rule from the Yukon Garden Handbook (1987), applied to the terrain.
Slope, sun, cold air and water
Four measurements on a 2.5 m grid, computed from the terrain. The site designer uses them to check where each building and crop goes.
The Agreement for Sale gives up to seven years to clear, break, cultivate and seed at least 60% of a soil-based parcel. Ground used to store brush and stumps does not count.
Cultivating Our Future: 2020 Yukon Agriculture Policy, B-4 · Agriculture land development guidelines
Slope from the LiDAR bare-earth surface on a 2.5 m grid.
Design the farm
An example plan fitted to this outline is loaded so you can see how it works. Move, reshape or delete anything. Pick a tool on the left, then click the ground to place it. Fields, roads, fences and shelterbelts take several clicks; double-click or press Enter to finish. Every change is checked against the rules on the right.
Changes are saved in this browser only.
The site designer needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.
The site plan
Your design, drawn to scale with the items the Farm Development Plan asks for in Section 2A: buildings with dimensions, access, shelterbelts, field layout, fence lines and water sources. It updates as you edit.
The site plan draws when the designer has loaded.
Farm Development Plan form, Section 2A · Agricultural Land Application YG(3344EMR) Rev.02/2025
From application to title
The Land Package turns this file and your design into the documents the Agriculture Branch reviews. Download the design file above and attach it to your project intake. The government's own fee is $25 plus GST.
- Day 0
Apply
Form YG3344 with a location map at 1:30,000 or 1:50,000 and corner coordinates to the second.
- Within 10 days
Preliminary screen
The Branch confirms the site is available and accepts or rejects.
- Within 60 days
Farm Development Plan
Developments at least equal to the land value, with the site plan. Scored out of 1,360; 700 to pass.
- Then
Soil and heritage
Branch soil investigation and a heritage assessment.
- 14-day comment minimum
YESAB review
Governments, First Nations and the public comment. Yukon accepts, rejects or varies the result.
- Up to 7 years
Agreement for Sale
Survey, then develop: 60% cleared and seeded before title transfers.
Application answers
YG3344 filled from this file: location, access, adjacent uses, traditional territories, corner coordinates.
Location map
NTS reference, north arrow, scale, road kilometre, access, nearby water.
Site plan
The drawing above, with a schedule of buildings, fields, fences and water.
Development schedule
Year-by-year clearing and building plan that reaches 60% before the Agreement ends.
Evidence ledger
Every layer checked, with source, date and result, and the list of items to confirm with the Branch.
Stages from the application form (Rev.02/2025, p.1) and yukon.ca/en/apply-agriculture-land. YESAB comment periods from yesab.ca. FDP scoring from the Farm Development Plan form.