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County Start date Size (acres) Structures lost Deaths Injuries Notes Image 2009 Dry Creek Complex [50] Dry Creek Complex Benton / Yakima 48,902 2 0 3 Oden Road Fire [50] Okanogan 9,607 14 0 3 2008 Badger Mountain Fire [50] Chelan / Douglas 15,023 0 0 5 Cold Springs Fire: Klickitat 7,729 0 0 0 Columbia River Road Fire [50] Okanogan 22,115 0 0 1
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 17 of those are found in Okanogan County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 7, 2025.
Okanogan County (/ ˌ oʊ k ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən /) [1] is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,104. [2] The county seat is Okanogan, [3] while the most populous city is Omak. Its area is the largest in the state. [4]
The dam replaced a wood crib dam started in 1903 by J.M. Hagerty, a local entrepreneur, and completed a year after his death. The dam fed a generating plant in a wooden powerplant below the dam and falls. Power went to the towns of Nighthawk and Oroville, as well as the nearby Owasco, Ivanhoe, Ruby and Canba mines. Attempts by Hagerty's estate ...
The Thirtymile Fire was first reported on July 9, 2001 in the Okanogan National Forest, approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of Winthrop, Washington, United States. The wildfire had been caused by an unattended campfire that spread rapidly in the hot and dry weather in the Pacific Northwest. Four firefighters were killed when the fire cut off ...
Joseph Wicks (September 19, 1896 [1] [2] – January 1984 [2]) was a judge of the Okanogan County, Washington and Ferry County, Washington Superior Court, where he served for 15 years, [1] [3] and as one of the defense attorneys in Goldmark vs. Canwell.
Tonasket was officially incorporated on December 16, 1927. It is named after Chief Tonasket of the Okanogan people, [4] a local leader from this area who assumed the status of grand chief of the American Okanogan after the drawing of the Canada–United States border by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, assuming a leadership role in Okanogan territory formerly held by Chief Nicola who lived north of ...
Frank (Sakae) Matsura (1873-1913) Source: Okanogan County Historical Society. Frank (Sakae) Matsura (1873–1913) was an early 20th-century Japanese photographer who travelled from Japan to America in 1901 where he lived until his early death. [1]