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. The population was 1,975 at the 2020 census, up from 1,912 in 2000.
View from aboard an Alaska Railroad train, looking at the George Parks Highway near its crossing of the Little Susitna River.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Matanuska-Susitna Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its borough seat is Palmer, and the largest community is the census-designated place of Knik-Fairview. As of the 2020 census, the borough's population was 107,801.
Ruth Glacier
Mount Bradley in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, 2014
The midway area of the Alaska State Fair, held annually in Palmer during late August and early September
A freshwater pond on Trimble Glacier, in the Tordrillo Mountains, in the far south-west of Mat-Su Borough