Wiseman is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States.

Wiseman is a small mining community along the Middle Fork Koyukuk River in the Brooks Range.

Robert Marshall, who became a prominent American forester, preservation activist, and a co-founder of The Wilderness Society, wrote the bestselling book, Arctic Village, about his 15-month stay in this frontier town around the year 1930.

Marshall described Wiseman and the Koyukuk River area surrounding it, as "the happiest civilization of which I have knowledge.

"[3] Marshall called Noel Wien's first flight there on May 5, 1925, "one of the great events in Koyukuk history.

Summers are short and mild, with frequent rainy days and cool nights.

It did not appear again until the 1990 census when it was designated an Alaskan Native Village Statistical Area (ANVSA), although most of the residents were non-Native.