Description
Wasilla is located population 112, in Matanuska Valley, mi. 159.8 on the Alaska RR., between Lucille Lake and Wasilla Lake, 11 mi. SW of Palmer, Cook Inlet Low.
History
Name of a station on The Alaska Railroad that came into being about 1916. A post office was established here in 1917 (Ricks, 1965, p. 70). The village derived its name from nearby Wasilla Creek.