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Omak (/ oʊ ˈ m æ k / o-MAK [3]) is a city located in the foothills of the Okanogan Highlands in north-central Washington, United States.With a population of 4,860 residents as of 2020, distributed over a land area of 3.43 square miles (8.9 km 2), Omak is the largest municipality of Okanogan County and the largest municipality in Central Washington north of Wenatchee.
Omak Lake is a saline endorheic lake in the U.S. state of Washington, within the Greater Omak Area. The lake covers 3,244 acres (13.13 km 2) at an elevation of 950 feet (290 m) and is fed by three small creeks. With a volume of 705,000 acre-feet (870,000,000 m 3) and depth of 325 feet (99 m), Omak is the largest saline lake in Washington. [1]
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]
U.S. Route 97 Business (Okanogan–Omak, Washington) This page was last edited on 20 June 2016, at 20:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The highway was previously part of State Road 10 and Primary State Highway 10 (PSH 10), concurrent with US 97, until a bypass of Omak was built in the 1960s. SR 20 was routed onto the highway after the 1964 highway renumbering , but was moved to the bypass and replaced by SR 215 in 1973.
Okanogan (/ ˌ oʊ k ə ˈ n ɒ ɡ ən / OH-kə-NOG-ən; derived from Syilx'tsn: "rendezvous" or "meeting place") is a city in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,379 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 2,552 at the 2010 census, within the Greater Omak Area. [5] It is the seat of Okanogan County.
North Omak is a census-designated place (CDP) in Okanogan County, Washington, United States, north of Omak, Washington. The community is considered to be part of Greater Omak , [ 3 ] and had a population of 651 at the 2020 census .
The suicide race was created in 1935 by Claire Pentz, the publicity director of the Omak rodeo, in an effort to promote the rodeo. [2] The race is rooted in nineteenth century Native American endurance races, which were held in on the Colville Indian Reservation in a valley near Keller, which was flooded after construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s.