Houston
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,980 residents
- Description: city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Houston Siding”, “Houston, AK”, and “Houston, Alaska”
- Postal code: 99694
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Big Lake.
Big Lake
Village
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Big Lake is a census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,833 at the 2020 census, up from 3,350 in 2010. Big Lake is situated 6 miles south of Houston.
Houston
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Southcentral Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.63028° or 61° 37′ 49″ northLongitude
-149.81806° or 149° 49′ 5″ westPopulation
1,980Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)United Nations Location Code
US HKAOpen location code
93HGJ5JJ+4QOpenStreetMap ID
node 150916758OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Volapük—“Houston” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Houston, Alaska”
- Albanian: “Houston”
- Arabic: “هيوستن”
- Basque: “Houston”
- Catalan: “Houston”
- Cebuano: “Houston”
- Central Kurdish: “ھیووستن، ئالاسکا”
- Chechen: “Гьюстон”
- Chinese: “Houston”
- Chinese: “休斯顿”
- Czech: “Houston”
- Danish: “Houston”
- Dutch: “Houston”
- Finnish: “Houston”
- French: “Houston”
- German: “Houston”
- Gilaki: “هيۊستن”
- Haitian: “Houston”
- Hungarian: “Houston”
- Irish: “Houston”
- Italian: “Houston”
- Japanese: “ヒューストン”
- Kurdish: “Houston, Alaska”
- Kurdish: “Houston”
- Ladin: “Houston”
- Malagasy: “Houston, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Houston”
- Malayalam: “ഹൂസ്റ്റൺ, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “ഹൂസ്റ്റൺ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Houston”
- Newari: “हाउस्टन (अलास्का)”
- Newari: “हाउस्टन, अलास्का”
- Newari: “हाउस्टन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Houston”
- Norwegian: “Houston”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Houston”
- Persian: “هوستون، الاسکا”
- Persian: “هوستون”
- Polish: “Houston”
- Portuguese: “Houston”
- Russian: “Хьюстон”
- Serbian: “Хаустон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Houston, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Houston”
- Slovak: “Houston”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوستون، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوستون”
- Spanish: “Houston”
- Swedish: “Houston, Alaska”
- Swedish: “Houston”
- Talysh: “Hjuston”
- Tatar: “Гьюстон (Аляска)”
- Tatar: “Гьюстон”
- Ukrainian: “Г’юстон”
- Uzbek: “Houston”
- Volapük: “Houston”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bible Baptist Church and Houston Visitor Center.
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