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Kennewick (/ ˈ k ɛ n ə w ɪ k /) is a city in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington.It is located along the southwest bank of the Columbia River, just southeast of the confluence of the Columbia and Yakima rivers and across from the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers.
1946 - Crane manufacturer Lampson International is established in Kennewick. [34] 1947 - November 13: The Pasco Herald (formerly the Pasco Express) moves to Kennewick, rebrands as the Tri-City Herald, and becomes a daily newspaper. [35] 1948 - May 31: Flooding on the Columbia River inundates a large portion of Kennewick and Richland, killing ...
US 395 runs north through Kennewick, crosses the Columbia River on the Blue Bridge and continues through Pasco and then north to Interstate 90 in Ritzville, Washington. SR 397 runs from Finley up to Pasco, crossing the Columbia River through the Cable Bridge continuing northbound to I-90 and Spokane .
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
Kennewick Man or Ancient One [nb 1] was a Native American man who lived during the early Holocene, whose skeletal remains were found washed out on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, on July 28, 1996.
Benton County, Washington. Benton County is a county in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 206,873. [1] The county seat is Prosser, [2] and its most populous city is Kennewick. The Columbia River demarcates the county's north, south, and east boundaries.
DNA analysis of a 8,500-year-old skeleton has provided a new twist in a long running dispute over which population it belongs to. The skeleton — dubbed the Kennewick Man or the Ancient One ...
The Cable Bridge, officially called the Ed Hendler Bridge and sometimes called the Intercity Bridge, spans the Columbia River between Pasco and Kennewick in southeastern Washington as State Route 397. It was constructed in 1978 and replaced the Pasco–Kennewick Bridge, an earlier span built in 1922 and demolished in 1990.