Keystone, Adams County, Washington

Last updated

Keystone
Ghost town
Coordinates: 47°14′25.63″N118°9′10.72″W / 47.2404528°N 118.1529778°W / 47.2404528; -118.1529778
CountryUnited States
State Washington
Foundedca. 1885
Elevation
1,936 ft (590 m)
Time zone UTC-8 (PST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
GNIS feature ID1511519 [1]
Postmark from Keystone Postoffice 1910 Keystone 1910.jpg
Postmark from Keystone Postoffice 1910

Keystone was a town in Adams County, Washington

Location: On Northern Pacific Railroad 16 miles NE of Ritzville, 10 miles SW of Sprague (east part of Section 9, T20N, R37E).

Keystone was on the site of the Harriston post office which was in operation from October 12, 1883 to September 22, 1884.  It is believed that it had the name Keystone from as far back as 1880 for an item in the Walla Walla Union of July 17, 1880 named it as a new “railroad town”. The Gazateer of 1907 described it as a “Station named Harrison (sic)” with a population of 20 people. At that time Smith & Sons were the general merchants, Carmichael Brothers also had a general store and a hotel, E M Robish dealt in lumber and fuel and J W Smith with the blacksmith, no doubt he being Keystone’s first postmaster.  Keystone was a grain shipping point and in 1907 C L Fish, Kerr, Gifford and Company and Puget Sound Wholesale Company were grain dealers.

John W Smith was born in 1856 in Beaver County, Penn.  He leaned the blacksmithing trade and set up his first shop in Elwood, IL.  In 1883 he came west, first to Oregon and then to Rockford, Spokane County, where he erected the first brick block in that town.  He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1889.  He came to Keystone in 1901.

The community was named after Pennsylvania, the Keystone State, the former home of an early postmaster. [2]

Postmasters:

Established October 23, 1901, John W Smith

David W Circle, March 25, 1905

Rolla T Stone, August 21, 1909

Myrtle S VanBuren, August 2, 1912

Discontinued May 1, 1925 – mail to Sprague (Lincoln County) [3]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cullom, Illinois</span> Village in Illinois, United States

Cullom is a village in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. Cullom is situated twenty miles east of Pontiac which is the county seat, and is one mile west of the Ford County line. The population was 555 at the 2010 census.

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

Tenney is an unincorporated community and former city in section 28 of Campbell Township, Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States. A post office was established there in 1887, and Tenney was incorporated as a city on November 30, 1901. The population was five at the 2010 census, tying Tenney with Funkley as Minnesota's least populous community. It is part of the Wahpeton, ND–MN Micropolitan Statistical Area. Tenney's main economic feature is a grain elevator near its southern border.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pocahontas, Virginia</span> Town in Virginia, United States

Pocahontas is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was named for Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, who lived in the 17th-century Jamestown Settlement. The town was founded as a company mining town by the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company in 1881. It was the first company mining town in Virginia. The post office opened on June 30, 1882.

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

Ritzville is a city in Adams County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,767 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Adams County. The city is part of the Othello, WA Micropolitan Area, which comprises all of Adams County, and is part of the larger Moses Lake-Othello, WA Combined Statistical Area.

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

Sprague is a small city in Lincoln County, Washington, United States. The population was 446 at the 2010 census. The city was platted in 1880 and named for former American Civil War Union general John Wilson Sprague.

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

Johnsonville is a small unincorporated community in Steuben Township, Warren County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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

Molson is in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. By road, the community is 15.1 miles east of Oroville. The ghost town of Old Molson is 1.7 miles south of the Canada–United States border.

Glasston is a farming town located in Saint Thomas Township in North Dakota's Pembina County, United States. It consists of a post office, a general store, and a handful of houses. It was established in 1886 as a station along the Great Northern Railroad. Originally called Baltimore, the site was later renamed for Archibald Glass, its first postmaster. The population of the village has rarely exceeded 100 since it was established.

Cropsey is a small unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois, United States. It was named for a Civil War colonel in the Union Army.

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

Lee is an unincorporated community in Monon Township, White County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John W. Sprague</span> American politician

John Wilson Sprague was an American soldier and railroad executive. He served as a general in the Union Army in the Western Theater of operations during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Decatur during the Atlanta Campaign. After the war, he was a railroad executive and later co-founded the city of Tacoma, Washington, serving as its first mayor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lilly Chapel, Ohio</span> Unincorporated community in Ohio, United States

Lilly Chapel is an unincorporated community in Fairfield Township, Madison County, Ohio, United States. It is located at 39°53′20″N83°16′54″W, at the intersection of W. Jefferson Kiousville Road and Lilly Chapel Georgesville Road, approximately three miles west of Georgesville.

Blackstone is an unincorporated village in section 7 of Sunbury Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States. Blackstone is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Streator and 13 miles (21 km) west of Dwight, Illinois. Blackstone has a post office with ZIP code 61313, a grainery complex, and a small rubber-products plant

Valley is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, United States. In the 2010 census the population was 146.

Suver is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States. It is located about 10 miles north of Corvallis and about 8 miles south of Monmouth, 1 mile east of Oregon Route 99W.

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

Dartford is an unincorporated community in Spokane County, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a small community located along the shore of Dartford Creek and the Little Spokane River north of Spokane.

Bangall is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The community is 6.2 miles (10.0 km) north of Millbrook. Bangall has a post office with ZIP code 12506, which opened on August 8, 1851.

<i>Relief</i> (1906 sternwheeler)

Relief was a stern-wheel steamboat that operated on the Columbia and Willamette rivers and their tributaries from 1906 to 1931. Relief had been originally built in 1902, on the Columbia at Blalock, Oregon, in Gilliam County, and launched and operated as Columbia, a much smaller vessel. Relief was used primarily as a freight carrier, first for about ten years in the Inland Empire region of Oregon and Washington, hauling wheat and fruit, and after that was operated on the lower Columbia river.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shea, Nebraska</span> Ghost town in Nebraska, United States

Shea was a small village in Jefferson County, Nebraska, located about four miles west of the town of Diller.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Keystone
  2. ↑ Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 129.
  3. ↑ Ramsey, Guy Reed (1977). Postmarked Washington - Adams and Lincoln County.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.