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Houston is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located roughly 33 miles from downtown Anchorage, though it is a 57-mile drive between the two points. [4] The population was 1,975 at the 2020 census, up from 1,912 in 2000.
Geography of Alaska. Alaska occupies the northwestern portion of the North American continent and is bordered only by Canada on the east. It is one of two U.S. states not bordered by another state; Hawaii is the other. Alaska has more ocean coastline than all of the other U.S. states combined. [1] About 500 miles (800 km) of Canadian territory ...
The history of Alaska dates back to the Upper Paleolithic period (around 14,000 BC), when foraging groups crossed the Bering land bridge into what is now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers, the area was populated by Alaska Native groups. The name "Alaska" derives from the Aleut word Alaxsxaq (also spelled ...
Hoonah–Angoon Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census , the population was 2,365, [ 2 ] up from 2,150 in 2010. [ 3 ] It is part of the unorganized borough and therefore has no borough seat .
70000916 [1] AHRS No. KET-014. Added to NRHP. October 27, 1970. Totem Bight State Historical Park is a 33-acre (13 ha) state park in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located north of Ketchikan.
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in south central Alaska.The park, the largest in the United States, covers the Wrangell Mountains and a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the ...
Prehistory of Alaska. History of slavery in Alaska; Russian Alaska, 1741 – 1867 Great Northern Expedition, 1733 – 1743; Spanish expeditions to Alaska, 1744 – 1791; U.S. Department of Alaska, 1867 – 1884 Alaska Purchase, treaty signed on March 30, 1867; Gold mining in Alaska. Klondike Gold Rush, 1896 – 1899; Alaska boundary dispute ...
Gambell Sites. The Gambell Sites are five archeological sites which established a chronology of over 2000 years of human habitation on St. Lawrence Island near Gambell, Alaska. [3] The sites (named Hillside, Mayughaaq, Ayveghyaget, Old Gambell, and Seklowaghyag) have provided evidence of four cultural phases of the Thule tradition.