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Meadow Lakes is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. Located west of Wasilla, it is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,197, up from 7,570 in 2010.
James Dale Ritchie was born on November 4, 1976. [1] He grew up in Anchorage's Wonder Park neighborhood and attended East Anchorage High School, where – standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – he was a standout athlete, having played on the 1994 state championship football and basketball teams alongside future professional athletes Trajan Langdon and Mao Tosi. [2]
The People Mover is the public transportation agency that serves metropolitan Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It is owned and operated by the Municipality of Anchorage, with service primarily within city limits as well as Eagle River .
The Alaska Zoo is a zoo in Anchorage, Alaska, located on 25 acres (10 ha) of the Anchorage Hillside. It is a popular attraction in Alaska, with nearly 200,000 visitors per year. [1] The zoo is currently home to more than 100 birds and mammals [1] representing some 50 species.
Petersville is located in the northwest part of Matanuska-Susitna Borough at (62.376890, -150.746952 It is bordered to the east by the Trapper Creek CDP. The small community of Petersville sits along Petersville Road on the east side of Peters Creek, 29 miles (47 km) northwest of Alaska Route 3 (the Parks Highway) at Trapper Creek, and 145 miles (233 km) north of Anchorage.
The borough is part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, along with the municipality of Anchorage on its south. The Mat-Su Borough is so designated because it contains the entire Matanuska and Susitna Rivers. They empty into Cook Inlet, which is the southern border of the Mat-Su Borough. It is one of the few agricultural areas of Alaska.
Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island and Alaskan Little Diomede Island are only 3 miles (4.8 km) apart. Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. [43] Alaska's size compared with the 48 contiguous states (Albers equal-area conic projection)
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]