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Houston, Alaska. 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.
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 ...
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 Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates six state prisons for men and its Region III office in unincorporated Brazoria County. [19] As of 2007,1,495 full-time correctional job positions were in the county. [20] In 1995, of the counties in Texas, Brazoria had the second-highest number of state prisons and jails, after Walker ...
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 ...
Mount Ada is located on Baranof Island and 30 miles (48 km) north of Port Alexander, Alaska. [4] It is set within the South Baranof Wilderness on land managed by Tongass National Forest. [2] The peak ranks as the highest summit in the wilderness and sixth-highest in Sitka Borough. [5] [6] Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains ...
Website. fairbanksalaska.us. Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. [6] Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the population of the city proper at 32,515 [7] and the population of the ...
Resurrection Peninsula. Coordinates: 59.992°N 149.260°W. Resurrection Peninsula is a peninsula on the larger Kenai Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska, which lies roughly 8 miles southeast of Seward. It contains very rugged geography, with very little flat land existing between sheer peaks and the deep inlets of Resurrection Bay to the west ...