Point MacKenzie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census the population was 1,852, up from 529 in 2010.
Name: | Point MacKenzie CDP |
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LSAD Code: | 57 |
LSAD Description: | CDP (suffix) |
State: | Alaska |
County: | Matanuska-Susitna Borough |
Elevation: | 213 ft (65 m) |
Total Area: | 164.79 sq mi (426.81 km²) |
Land Area: | 162.33 sq mi (420.44 km²) |
Water Area: | 2.46 sq mi (6.37 km²) |
Total Population: | 1,852 |
Population Density: | 11.41/sq mi (4.40/km²) |
Area code: | 907 |
FIPS code: | 0261788 |
GNISfeature ID: | 1865561 |
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Point MacKenzie location map. Where is Point MacKenzie CDP?
History
In the book Shem Pete’s Alaska, a collection of recollections about the lives of Upper Cook Inlet Dena’ina Athabascans, Point MacKenzie is identified as Dilhi Tunch’del’usht Beydegh, (“Point where we transport hooligan”), a trade site where the Dghelay Teht’ana (“The Mountain People”) of the Talkeetna Mountains would trade with the Dena’ina of the Knik Arm.
Seward’s Success was once proposed to be constructed here in the 1970s.
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Geography
Point MacKenzie is located at 61°22′30″N 149°54′45″W / 61.37500°N 149.91250°W / 61.37500; -149.91250 (61.374982, -149.912390).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 150.3 square miles (389 km), of which, 148.0 square miles (383 km) of it is land and 2.3 square miles (6.0 km) of it (1.54%) is water.
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