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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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Yakima County, Washington
Yakima County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Yakima
Year Organized: 1865
Square Miles: 4,296 |
Court House: 128 N 2nd Street, Courthouse
County Courthouse
Yakima, WA 98901-2639
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
The Yakama Native American tribe.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Yakima County was created 21 January 1865 from Walla Walla
Yakima is the second largest county in Washington, covering 4,296 square miles (2.7 million acres), and ranks seventh
in per-county population with 222,581 residents counted in the 2000 United States population census. The town of Yakima
is the county seat. Yakima County encompasses most of the Yakama Indian Reservation, and federal, state, or tribal
governments own nearly 200 million acres of land in the county. The location of many towns within Yakima County was
largely determined by the Northern Pacific Railroad, along whose route the sites were chosen, named, platted, and
eventually sold to settlers. Yakima County's primary industry is agriculture, bolstered by an annual average of 300 days
of sunshine and nutrient-rich volcanic soil and enabled by Yakima River irrigation projects.
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Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 4,312 square miles (11,167 kmē), of which,
4,296 square miles (11,127 kmē) of it is land and 15 square miles (40 kmē) of it (0.36%) is water. The highest point
in the county is Mount Adams at 12,277 feet (3,742 meters) above sea level.
Neighboring Counties:
- Kittitas County, Washington - north
- Grant County, Washington - northeast
- Benton County, Washington - east
- Klickitat County, Washington - south
- Skamania County, Washington - west/southwest
- Lewis County, Washington - west
- Pierce County, Washington - northwest
Cities and Towns:
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- Grandview |
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- Granger |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Harrah |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mabton |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Moxee |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Naches |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Selah |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sunnyside |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tieton |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Toppenish |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Union Gap |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wapato |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Yakima
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Zillah |
city |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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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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