Theon, Washington | |
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  Theon  Theon | |
| Coordinates: 46°09′17″N117°05′46″W / 46.15472°N 117.09611°W [1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Washington |
| County | Asotin |
| Established | 1884 |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
Theon was a town in Asotin County, Washington.
Established in 1884, Theon was named after Daniel Theon Welch, a local merchant. [2] A post office called Theon operated from 1880 to 1909. [3]
Walla Walla County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 62,584. The county seat and largest city is Walla Walla. The county was formed on April 25, 1854 and is named after the Walla Walla tribe of Native Americans.
Garfield County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,286, making it the least populous county in Washington; with about 3.2 inhabitants per square mile (1.2/km2), it is also the least densely populated county in Washington. The county seat and only city is Pomeroy.
Columbia County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,952, making it the second-least populous county in Washington. The county seat and largest city is Dayton. The county was created out of Walla Walla County on November 11, 1875, and is named after the Columbia River. Columbia County is included in the Walla Walla, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Asotin County is a county in the far southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,285. The county seat is at Asotin, and its largest city is Clarkston. The county was created out of Garfield County in 1883 and derives its name from a Nez Perce word meaning "Eel Creek." Asotin County is part of the Lewiston–Clarkston metropolitan area, which includes Nez Perce County, Idaho, and Asotin County.
Pomeroy is the only incorporated city and the county seat of Garfield County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,389 at the 2020 census.
The Blue Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern United States, located largely in northeastern Oregon and stretching into extreme southeastern Washington. The range has an area of about 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2), stretching east and southeast of Pendleton, Oregon, to the Snake River along the Oregon–Idaho border.
Eastern Washington is the region of the U.S. state of Washington located east of the Cascade Range. It contains the city of Spokane, the Tri-Cities, the Columbia River and the Grand Coulee Dam, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and the fertile farmlands of the Yakima Valley and the Palouse. Unlike in Western Washington, the climate is dry, including some desert environments.
The Palouse is a distinct geographic region of the northwestern United States, encompassing parts of north central Idaho, southeastern Washington, and, by some definitions, parts of northeast Oregon. It is a major agricultural area, primarily producing wheat and legumes. Situated about 160 miles (260 km) north of the Oregon Trail, the region experienced rapid growth in the late 19th century.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of the state of Washington: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima.
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Washington that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are at least three listings in each of Washington's 39 counties.
The Touchet River is a 65-mile (105 km) tributary of the Walla Walla River in southeastern Washington in the United States. The Touchet River drains an area of about 752 square miles (1,950 km2) in Columbia County and Walla Walla County.
The Umatilla National Forest, in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington, covers an area of 1.4 million acres (5,700 km2). In descending order of land area the forest is located in parts of Umatilla, Grant, Columbia, Morrow, Wallowa, Union, Garfield, Asotin, Wheeler, and Walla Walla counties. More than three-quarters of the forest lies in the state of Oregon. Forest headquarters are located in Pendleton, Oregon. There are local ranger district offices in Heppner and Ukiah in Oregon, and in Pomeroy and Walla Walla in Washington.
The Saddle Mountains consists of an upfolded anticline ridge of basalt in Grant County of central Washington state. The ridge, reaching to 2,700 feet, terminates in the east south of Othello, Washington near the foot of the Drumheller Channels. It continues to the west where it is broken at Sentinel Gap before ending in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
The following is a list of the forty-nine legislative districts in the U.S. state of Washington following the 2022 redistricting. From the time Washington achieved statehood in 1889, it has elected members for representation to the state legislature. Each district elects a state senator and two district representatives. The districts have changed throughout state history through periodical redistricting, most recently in 2022 following the 2020 census. District lines in Washington are drawn by the Washington State Redistricting Commission, which is made up of four members appointed by the legislature's party leaders and a fifth non-voting chair.
Thomas L. Copeland is an American former politician from Washington.
Elgin Victor Kuykendall (1870–1958) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician in the state of Washington in the United States. For several years the chairman of the state committee of the Republican Party of Washington, Kuykendall was first elected to the Washington State Senate in November 1916 and re-elected to a second term two years later. Kuykendall was appointed a judge of the Washington State Superior court in December 1924 and remained in that capacity until his retirement in December 1949. In his twilight years Kuykendall also pursued the avocation of regional historian, ultimately publishing two works on the history of Southeastern Washington state as well as his memoirs.
Silcott is an unincorporated community and ghost town in Asotin County, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located on the south bank of the Snake River. U.S. Route 12 passes through the community. Much of the townsite was inundated when Lower Granite Lake filled on the Snake River behind Lower Granite Dam in 1975.
The Lower Snake River Archaeological District is a 654-acre (2.65 km2) historic district in Franklin County, Washington and Walla Walla County, Washington, near Pasco which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district covers the section of the Snake River between its confluence with the Columbia River and the Ice Harbor Dam. The listing included 14 contributing sites.
Asotin Creek is a tributary of the Snake River in Asotin County, southeastern Washington. The creek's main stem is 15.5 miles (24.9 km) long, and measured to the head of its longest tributary its length is 33.7 miles (54.2 km). It flows into the Snake River at the town of Asotin, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Lewiston–Clarkston. Asotin Creek drains about 325 square miles (840 km2) of mostly semi-arid plateau country on the northeastern flank of the Blue Mountains.
Robert Bracken was an American prospector and rancher, who became known as the first permanent European settler of what would become Asotin County, Washington. He traveled to the region from California during the 1861 Idaho gold rush, and spent the rest of his life as a rancher in Asotin County. He killed himself in 1906.
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