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Washington Counties
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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. |
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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
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Ulysses Simpson Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
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 kmē), of which,
2,681 square miles (6,944 kmē) of it is land and 110 square miles (285 kmē) 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:
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- Coulee City |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Electric City |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ephrata
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- George |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Grand Coulee |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hartline |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Krupp |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mattawa |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Moses Lake |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Quincy |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Royal City |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Soap Lake |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Warden |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wilson Creek |
town |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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Online High Schools
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our 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." |
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