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 Click Image to Enlarge Washington CountiesThere 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. |
Spokane County, WashingtonSpokane County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameThe Spokane Native American tribe. Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryAbolished 19 January 1863 and merged with Stevens County. Recreated in 1879 from Stevens County. Spokane County was created 29 January 1858 from Walla Walla County Spokane County is the most populous county in mainly rural Eastern Washington and home to the second largest city in
the state. After settlement in the 1870s, Spokane became the hub for the mining, timber, and railroad industries of the
Inland Northwest. In the surrounding areas, cattle ranging and especially wheat farming became important. Today, the
city and county of Spokane serve as the medical, financial, and commercial center of a vast region stretching from the
Cascades eastward into western Montana. Fairchild Air Force Base is the county's largest employer, and agriculture
remains a factor. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,781 square miles (4,612 kmē), of which,
1,764 square miles (4,568 kmē) of it is land and 17 square miles (44 kmē) of it (0.96%) is water. It is part of the
Palouse, a wide and rolling prairie-like region of the middle Columbia basin. The lowest point in the county is the
Spokane River behind Long Lake Dam (boundary of Stevens County) at 469 meters (1,538 feet) above sea level. (There
is virtually no change in elevation between the dam and the mouth of the Little Spokane River inside Riverside State
Park.) The highest point in the county is Mount Spokane at 1,793 meters (5,883 feet). Neighboring Counties:
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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." |
