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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.

Lincoln County, Washington

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

County Seat: Davenport
Year Organized: 1883
Square Miles: 2,311

Court House:

PO Box 68
County Courthouse
Davenport, WA 99122-0068

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts:

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County History

Lincoln County was created 24 November 1883 from Spokane County.

Lincoln County, formed in 1883, is located in northeast Washington in the region historically known as Big Bend Country. The county measures 2311.2 square miles, ranking it seventh in size among Washington's 39 counties. As of 2005, Lincoln County has 10,100 residents. It is bordered to the west by Grant County, to the south by Adams County and Whitman County, to the east by Spokane County, and to the north by the Spokane River/Stevens County, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake/Ferry County, and a small part of Okanogan County. Davenport is the county seat. Lincoln is an agricultural county, with orchards, cattle raising, and especially wheat predominating.
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Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,340 square miles (6,060 km²), of which, 2,311 square miles (5,986 km²) of it is land and 29 square miles (74 km²) of it (1.22%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Ferry County, Washington - north
Stevens County, Washington - northeast
Spokane County, Washington - east
Whitman County, Washington - southeast
Adams County, Washington - south
Grant County, Washington - west
Okanogan County, Washington - northwest

Cities and Towns:

- Almira	town	Incorporated Area
- Creston	town	Incorporated Area
- Davenport (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Harrington	city	Incorporated Area
- Odessa	town	Incorporated Area
- Reardan	town	Incorporated Area
- Sprague	city	Incorporated Area
- Wilbur	town	Incorporated Area

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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."