Cinebar, Washington

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Cinebar, Washington
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Cinebar
Coordinates: 46°36′15″N122°31′54″W / 46.60417°N 122.53167°W / 46.60417; -122.53167
Country United States
State Washington
County Lewis
Area
  Total14.2 sq mi (37 km2)
  Land14.1 sq mi (37 km2)
  Water.1 sq mi (0.3 km2)
Elevation
1,109 ft (338 m)
Population
 (2000)
  Total517
  Density36.5/sq mi (14.1/km2)
Time zone UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code
98533
Area code 360
GNIS feature ID1517781 [1]

Cinebar is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington, United States. It is located between State Route 508 and U.S. Route 12. Named for the cinnabar present in the mountains to the northeast, [2] Cinebar is a rural area with a post office and fire station on State Route 508. Other communities near Cinebar include Silver Creek, Salkum, Morton, Onalaska, Napavine, Chehalis, and Centralia.

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Parks and recreation

Tilton River State Park, between Cinebar and Morton, is a 102-acre natural area owned by the state. In 2017, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife proposed a project on the site to "provide fishing, river access and wildlife viewing. In the future it could provide a salmonid release site as well as habitat." [3]

Other nearby attractions and points of interest include the Cowlitz River, the Tilton River, Lake Mayfield, Lake Mayfield Park, Mayfield Resort, and Ike Kinswa State Park.

Government and politics

Politics

Presidential Elections Results
Year Republican Democratic Third parties
2020 [4] 74.64%40924.09% 1321.27% 7

Cinebar has historically voted Republican and conservative, similar in voting demographics in respects to other rural areas within Lewis County. As this is an unincorporated community, there are no defined bounds, and the precinct may be incongruous with the census boundaries. [5]

The 2020 election included 6 votes for candidates of the Libertarian Party.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lewis County, Washington</span> County in Washington, United States

Lewis County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 82,149. The county seat is Chehalis, and its largest city is Centralia. Lewis County comprises the Centralia, WA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Seattle-Tacoma, WA Combined Statistical Area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cowlitz River</span> River in Washington, United States

The Cowlitz River is a river in the state of Washington in the United States, a tributary of the Columbia River. Its tributaries drain a large region including the slopes of Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens.

Randle is a small town in eastern Lewis County, Washington, United States. Randle is located on U.S. Route 12 and is notable as the northeastern access point to the Mount St. Helens Windy Ridge viewpoint, by way of forest service roads that cut through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Onalaska is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lewis County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 657. Onalaska is located along Washington State Route 508.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lake Mayfield</span> Lake in Washington state, U.S.

Lake Mayfield is a reservoir located near Mossyrock, Washington, in Lewis County. It was created by Mayfield Dam on the Cowlitz River, one of the dams in the Columbia River watershed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dryad, Washington</span> Unincorporated community in Washington, United States

Dryad is a rural unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington. The town of Doty is 1.3-miles to the west, with Adna and Ceres to the east, on Washington State Route 6. The Chehalis River bisects the area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mineral, Washington</span> Census-designated place in Washington, United States

Mineral is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lewis County, Washington, on State Route 7 near the Pierce/Lewis county line. Mineral originally began as a logging camp and mining town. Prospectors searching the area for gold instead found coal and arsenic. By the early 1920s, the mines closed, and with a devastating fire to the town's largest sawmill, Mineral began to turn to tourism as its main industry, primarily through recreational fishing on Mineral Lake. The population was 193 at the 2020 census, down from 202 at the 2010 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Washington State Route 508</span> State highway in Washington, United States

State Route 508 (SR 508) is a 32.84-mile (52.85 km) long state highway located in Lewis County within the U.S. state of Washington, extending from an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) concurrent with U.S. Route 12 (US 12) in Napavine to SR 7 in Morton. By 1916, a road between Napavine and Cinebar was constructed on the current route of SR 508 and was signed in 1937 as Secondary State Highway 5K (SSH 5K) after being extended to Morton. SSH 5K became SR 508 in 1968 and since then, a segment in Bear Canyon has been reconstructed twice between 2007 and 2009 and a bridge over the Tilton River was reconstructed in 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Skamania, Washington</span> Unincorporated community in Washington, United States

Skamania is a small unincorporated community in Skamania County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Washington.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Washington State Route 122</span> State highway in Lewis County, Washington, US

State Route 122 (SR 122) is a 7.88-mile-long (12.68 km) state highway on the north shore of Lake Mayfield in rural Lewis County, located within the U.S. state of Washington. The highway begins at U.S. Route 12 (US 12) in Silver Creek and travels east through Ike Kinswa State Park before turning south over the Cowlitz River to Mossyrock, ending at US 12. SR 122 was established in 1991 on roads built in the 1910s and 1940s and the designation was transferred from SR 142.

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Kosmos was an unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington, southwest of Glenoma and is now considered a flooded town. Kosmos is named from a Greek term meaning "the world or universe as an embodiment of order and harmony".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tilton River</span> River in Washington, United States

The Tilton River is a tributary of the Cowlitz River, in the U.S. state of Washington. Named for territorial surveyor James Tilton, it flows for about 29 miles (47 km), entirely within Lewis County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Riffe Lake</span> Reservoir in Washington, United States

Riffe Lake is a long reservoir on the Cowlitz River in the U.S. state of Washington. The 23.5 mi (38 km) lake was created by the construction of Mossyrock Dam, the tallest dam in the state, in 1968 by Tacoma City Light.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ike Kinswa State Park</span> State park in Lewis County, Washington, US

Ike Kinswa State Park is a public recreation area on the northern side of Lake Mayfield, located three miles (4.8 km) northwest of Mossyrock in Lewis County, Washington. The state park covers 421 acres (170 ha) that include 46,000 feet (14,000 m) of shoreline mostly along the Tilton River including the point where the Tilton and Cowlitz rivers once merged. The park offers boating, fishing, swimming, waterskiing and windsurfing plus facilities for camping, hiking, and mountain biking, It is managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.

Alpha is an unincorporated community located in Lewis County, Washington. The town rests alongside Washington State Route 508, between Cinebar, 3.5 miles away to the east, and Onalaska to the west.

Silver Creek is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington, United States. Silver Creek is located along U.S. Route 12 near its junction with Washington State Route 122, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Mossyrock. Lake Mayfield is accessible 3.5 miles to the east.

Harmony is an unincorporated town in Lewis County, Washington. The community is located near the junction of the Cowlitz River and Mayfield Lake, and is situated off Route 122, north of Mossyrock.

References

  1. "Cinebar". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Majors, Harry M. (1975). Exploring Washington. Van Winkle Publishing Co. p. 122. ISBN   978-0-918664-00-6.
  3. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (January 17, 2017). "Tilton River State Park - 102 acres" (PDF). WDFW.wa.gov.
  4. "Lewis County 2020 Election". Results.Vote.WA. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  5. "Lewis County 2019 / 2020 Voter Precincts Maps" (PDF). maps.lewiscountywa.gov. Lewis County Government. Retrieved July 26, 2021.

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