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02-58660. GNIS feature ID. 1407737. Website. Official website. Palmer is a city in and the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, located 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway in the Matanuska Valley. [3] It is the ninth-largest city in Alaska, and forms part of the Anchorage Metropolitan ...
74000440 [1] Added to NRHP. October 9, 1974. The Independence Mines, now Independence Mine State Historic Park, is the site of a former gold mining operation in the Talkeetna Mountains, across Hatcher Pass from Palmer, Alaska. The area's mining history dates to at least 1897, when active claims were reported in the vicinity of Fishook Creek.
Coordinates: 61°47′N 149°15′W / 61.783°N 149.250°W / 61.783; -149.250. The Willow Creek mining district, also known as the Independence Mine/Hatcher Pass district, is a gold-mining area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Underground hard-rock mining of gold from quartz veins accounts for most of the mineral wealth extracted from ...
Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Coordinates: 61°23′N 150°15′W. Map of the region. Matanuska-Susitna Valley (/ mætəˈnuːskə suːˈsɪtnə /; known locally as the Mat-Su or The Valley) is an area in Southcentral Alaska south of the Alaska Range about 35 miles (56 km) north of Anchorage, Alaska. [1] It is known for the world record sized ...
In the small town of Kotzebue, 550 miles (885 kilometers) by air to the northwest, temperatures of minus 30 Fahrenheit (minus 34.4 Celsius) and below caused heating fuel to thicken so much that ...
Alaskan gas wells are located in two regions. The largest source is the North Slope area around Prudhoe Bay where gas was discovered along with oil in 1968. In 1974 the State of Alaska's Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys estimated that the field held 26 × 1012 cu ft (740 km 3) of natural gas. [3]
A National Park Service report on Alaska's glaciers noted glaciers within Alaska national parks shrank 8% between the 1950s and early 2000s and glacier-covered area across the state decreased by ...
Gravel. Statistics. Based aircraft. 227. Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1] Palmer Municipal Airport (IATA: PAQ, ICAO: PAAQ, FAA LID: PAQ) is a public airport located 1 mi (1.6 km) southeast of the central business district of Palmer, a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. This airport is owned by the City of Palmer.