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33-649: Lazy Mountain is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska , United States. Located east of Palmer along the Matanuska River . At the 2020 census the population was 1,506, up from 1,479 in 2010. Lazy Mountain, the namesake geographic feature of the Lazy Mountain area, is located at 61°37′32″N 149°02′42″W  /  61.625517°N 149.044935°W  / 61.625517; -149.044935 . The peak of Lazy Mountain

66-515: A continental subarctic climate ( Köppen Dfc) with cold, snowy winters and mild summers. Lazy Mountain first appeared on the 1990 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP). As of the census of 2000, there were 1,158 people, 410 households, and 303 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 32.6 inhabitants per square mile (12.6/km). There were 465 housing units at an average density of 13.1 per square mile (5.1/km). The racial makeup of

99-424: A CDP name "be one that is recognized and used in daily communication by the residents of the community" (not "a name developed solely for planning or other purposes") and recommend that a CDP's boundaries be mapped based on the geographic extent associated with inhabitants' regular use of the named place. There is no provision, however, that this name recognition be unanimous for all residents, or that all residents use

132-816: A Comprehensive Plan to the Borough Assembly, and it adopted by the Assembly in 2008. The Lazy Mountain Recreation Area is a 360-acre site which has hiking, skiing, and equestrian trails. The parking area at the East end of Huntley Road provides access to the Morgan Horse, Lazy Moose and Lazy Mountain Trails. The Lazy Mountain area is only accessible by road along the Old Glenn Highway, formerly Alaska Route 1 . This section of

165-466: A household in the CDP was $ 46,500, and the median income for a family was $ 54,881. Males had a median income of $ 37,179 versus $ 28,889 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 22,789. About 3.3% of families and 7.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 9.4% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. As a Census-Designated Place, the Lazy Mountain Area

198-565: A minor arterial from that point north into Palmer. East Smith Road, which forms the southern boundary of the Lazy Mountain CDP, is considered a minor collector road for the first 1/2 mile from the Old Glenn Highway, as is Clark-Wolverine Road from the Old Glenn Highway all the way to where it becomes Wolverine Road, and on to N. McKenzie Drive The Lazy Mountain Area is served by numerous private airports. The following airports are registered with

231-455: A population of at least 10,000. For the 1970 Census , the population threshold for "unincorporated places" in urbanized areas was reduced to 5,000. For the 1980 Census , the designation was changed to "census designated places" and the designation was made available for places inside urbanized areas in New England. For the 1990 Census , the population threshold for CDPs in urbanized areas

264-477: Is 3,720 feet (1,130 metres) above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau , the 2010 CDP has a total area of 58.82 square miles (152.3 km) (up from 35.7 in 2000), of which, 35.5 square miles (92 km) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km) of it is water. The southern boundary of the CDP starts at the Old Glenn Highway where it meets E. Smith Rd, extends east along

297-673: Is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Alaska . It runs from Homer northeast and east to Tok by way of Anchorage . It is one of two routes in Alaska to contain significant portions of freeway : the Seward Highway in south Anchorage and the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer. AK-1 is also known by the named highways it traverses: AK-1 begins at the Alaska Marine Highway 's Homer Ferry Terminal at

330-558: Is not a traditional village or town. It lies to the east of the nearest municipal area, Palmer. The area is part of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, and as such is subject to borough control. The Lazy Mountain Community Council, which represents a similar but slightly smaller area than the Lazy Mountain CDP, provides feedback to the borough from some of the residents of the area. The Lazy Mountain Community Council submitted

363-683: Is part of the Interstate Highway System ; only the route between Homer and Soldotna does not carry an unsigned Interstate designation. The entire length of A-3 follows AK-1 from the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna to the turn in downtown Anchorage ; there A-1 begins, running to Tok along AK-1. (A-1 continues to the Yukon border along AK-2, the Alaska Highway .) Only a short portion of

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396-531: Is the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC). Census-designated place CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places , such as self-governing cities , towns , and villages , for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated community, for which

429-643: The 1890 Census , in which the Census mixed unincorporated places with incorporated places in its products with "town" or "village" as its label. This made it confusing to determine which of the "towns" were or were not incorporated. The 1900 through 1930 Censuses did not report data for unincorporated places. For the 1940 Census , the Census Bureau compiled a separate report of unofficial, unincorporated communities of 500 or more people. The Census Bureau officially defined this category as "unincorporated places" in

462-455: The 1950 Census and used that term through the 1970 Census. For the 1950 Census, these types of places were identified only outside " urbanized areas ". In 1960 , the Census Bureau also identified unincorporated places inside urbanized areas (except in New England , whose political geography is based on the New England town , and is distinctly different from other areas of the U.S.), but with

495-559: The Alaska Highway which had been constructed from Montana through Calgary, Alberta , through Whitehorse, Canada by Army engineers to move supplies and equipment, and to build airbases, to service the requirements of the Pacific theater, including transport of Lend Lease aircraft to the Soviet Union after its invasion by Germany. The road was built in the 1940s through challenging terrain, largely by battalions of Black engineers, including

528-542: The 97th Engineer Battalion. in order to facilitate transport of World War II material in particular from ports such as Valdez and Anchorage to the interior. It was upgraded in the 1950s to better connect the Richardson Highway more directly with Tok. It was called a "cut-off" because it allowed motor traffic coming to and from Canada on the Alaska Highway , to drive directly northeast or southwest connect to or from Southcentral Alaska communities without driving all

561-464: The CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, edge cities , colonias located along the Mexico–United States border , and unincorporated resort and retirement communities and their environs. The boundaries of any CDP may change from decade to decade, and

594-548: The CDP was 92.66% White , 0.09% Black or African American , 2.94% Native American , 1.04% Asian , 0.17% from other races , and 3.11% from two or more races. 1.04% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 410 households, out of which 40.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.7% were married couples living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.9% were non-families. 20.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.6% had someone living alone who

627-421: The Census Bureau considers some towns in New England states, New Jersey and New York as well as townships in some other states as MCDs, even though they are incorporated municipalities in those states. In such states, CDPs may be defined within such towns or spanning the boundaries of multiple towns. There are a number of reasons for the CDP designation: Alaska Route 1 Alaska Route 1 ( AK-1 )

660-478: The Census Bureau may de-establish a CDP after a period of study, then re-establish it some decades later. Most unincorporated areas within the United States are not and have not been included in any CDP. The boundaries of a CDP have no legal status and may not always correspond with the local understanding of the area or community with the same name. However, criteria established for the 2010 census require that

693-624: The FAA Identifier Name and one Heliport At least three other unregistered landing areas exist in the Lazy Mountain area, one along the Old Glenn Highway between Eugene Drive and Clark-Wolverine Rd. and two near Huntley Road. The nearest public airport is the Palmer Municipal Airport (PAQ). Effective May 29, 2014, all airports in the Lazy Mountain area use a single common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF), 123.60 MHz. The nearest airport with scheduled commercial service

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726-562: The Glenn Highway was bypassed when the Glenn Highway was rerouted across the Knik and Matanuska Rivers and the Palmer Hay Flats in 1976. The Old Glenn Highway is now reached from the south at an interchange off of the Glenn Highway at milepost 29.6, or from Palmer where the Old Glenn becomes Arctic Avenue. The Old Glenn Highway is classified as a major collector South of Clark-Wolverine Road, and as

759-448: The Seward Highway south of downtown Anchorage and a longer portion of the Glenn Highway northeast to AK-3 are built to freeway standards; the proposed Highway to Highway Connection would link these through downtown. All exits are unnumbered. The Tok Cut-Off is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska , running 125 miles (201 km) from Gakona (on the Richardson Highway , 14 miles (23 km) north of Glennallen ), to Tok on

792-540: The Smith Road extension to Harmony Avenue, then south one block to Purser Place and then east again approximately 1/2 mile along an imaginary line to McRoberts Creek. McRoberts Creek forms the southeast boundary of the CDP up to its headwaters and to the top of the ridge south of Matanuska Peak. The east boundary forms an irregular line along the ridge to Matanuska Peak, then down to the glacier and along its outfall creek to where it meets Wolverine Creek. Lazy Mountain has

825-581: The beginning of the Glenn Highway . AK-1 follows the entire length of the Glenn Highway , passing the south end of the George Parks Highway ( AK-3 ) near Wasilla and meeting the Richardson Highway ( AK-4 ) near Glennallen . A short concurrency north along AK-4 takes AK-1 to the Tok Cut-Off , which it follows northeast to its end at the Alaska Highway ( AK-2 ) at Tok . The majority of AK-1

858-484: The boundaries for CDPs. The PSAP was to be offered to county and municipal planning agencies during 2008. The boundaries of such places may be defined in cooperation with local or tribal officials, but are not fixed, and do not affect the status of local government or incorporation; the territories thus defined are strictly statistical entities. CDP boundaries may change from one census to the next to reflect changes in settlement patterns. Further, as statistical entities,

891-419: The boundaries of the CDP may not correspond with local understanding of the area with the same name. Recognized communities may be divided into two or more CDPs while on the other hand, two or more communities may be combined into one CDP. A CDP may also cover the unincorporated part of a named community, where the rest lies within an incorporated place. By defining an area as a CDP, that locality then appears in

924-588: The community for which the CDP is named for services provided therein. There is no mandatory correlation between CDP names or boundaries and those established for other human purposes, such as post office names or zones, political precincts, or school districts. The Census Bureau states that census-designated places are not considered incorporated places and that it includes only census-designated places in its city population list for Hawaii because that state has no incorporated cities. In addition, census city lists from 2007 included Arlington County, Virginia 's CDP in

957-543: The list with the incorporated places, but since 2010, only the Urban Honolulu CDP, Hawaii, representing the historic core of Honolulu, Hawaii , is shown in the city and town estimates. The Census Bureau reported data for some unincorporated places as early as the first census in 1790 (for example, Louisville, Kentucky , which was not legally incorporated in Kentucky until 1828), though usage continued to develop through

990-457: The same category of census data as incorporated places. This distinguishes CDPs from other census classifications, such as minor civil divisions (MCDs), which are in a separate category. The population and demographics of the CDP are included in the data of county subdivisions containing the CDP. Generally, a CDP shall not be defined within the boundaries of what the Census Bureau regards to be an incorporated city, village or borough. However,

1023-652: The tip of Homer Spit just south of the end of the Sterling Highway in Homer . It follows the entire Sterling Highway through Soldotna to the junction with the Seward Highway north of Seward , where it meets the north end of AK-9 . There it turns north and follows the Seward Highway to its end in Anchorage , and follows the one-way pairs of Ingra and Gambell Streets and 6th and 5th Avenues, continuing east on 5th Avenue to

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1056-454: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.82, and the average family size was 3.30. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 31.6% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 28.2% from 45 to 64, and 6.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 114.4 males. For every 100 females aged 18 and over, there were 111.2 males. The median income for

1089-477: Was reduced to 2,500. From 1950 through 1990, the Census Bureau specified other population requirements for unincorporated places or CDPs in Alaska , Puerto Rico , island areas, and Native American reservations . Minimum population criteria for CDPs were dropped with the 2000 Census . The Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) allows designated participants to review and suggest modifications to

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