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Washington Counties

There are 39 counties in the state of Washington. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory and admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. The first counties were created from unorganized territory in 1845.

Grant County, Washington

Grant County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Ephrata
Year Organized: 1909
Square Miles: 2,676

Court House:

35 C Street NW
County Courthouse
Ephrata, WA 98823-1685

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Ulysses Simpson Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Grant County was created 24 February 1909 from Douglas County.

Covering a total of 2,660 square miles, Grant County -- located in the Columbia Basin region of central Washington -- is the state's fourth largest county. It was initially carved out of neighboring Douglas County in 1909. The original (and much larger) Douglas County had been created in 1883 when the Washington Territorial Legislature formed Lincoln and Spokane counties from a larger Spokane County, then separated the new Lincoln County into Lincoln and Douglas Counties only a few days later.
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Economic

Located in the heart of Eastern Washington, Grant County is home to an international airport with a foreign trade zone, industrial power rates averaging 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour, inexpensive land, low tax rates and a sizable workforce, thus making it a formidable area for industrial expansion.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,791 square miles (7,229 km²), of which, 2,681 square miles (6,944 km²) of it is land and 110 square miles (285 km²) of it (3.95%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Douglas County, Washington - north
Okanogan County, Washington - northeast
Adams County, Washington - east
Lincoln County, Washington - east
Franklin County, Washington - southeast
Benton County, Washington - south
Yakima County, Washington - southwest
Kittitas County, Washington - west

Cities and Towns:

- Coulee City	town	Incorporated Area
- Electric City	town	Incorporated Area
- Ephrata (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- George	city	Incorporated Area
- Grand Coulee	city	Incorporated Area
- Hartline	town	Incorporated Area
- Krupp	town	Incorporated Area
- Mattawa	town	Incorporated Area
- Moses Lake	city	Incorporated Area
- Quincy	city	Incorporated Area
- Royal City	city	Incorporated Area
- Soap Lake	city	Incorporated Area
- Warden	city	Incorporated Area
- Wilson Creek	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."