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Ilwaco (/ ɪ l ˈ w ɑː k oʊ / il-WAH-koh) is a city in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,087 at the 2020 census . Founded in 1890, the city was home to the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company along the Long Beach Peninsula , with its core economy based on logging and timber rafting .
Black Lake is a lake located about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Olympia, Washington. [2] [3] It has two outflows; the Black River, which drains southwest into the Chehalis River and thence to Gray's Harbor and the Pacific Ocean, and Percival Creek, which drains northeast into Capitol Lake and thence into Puget Sound.
The Black River's source is Black Lake, located about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Tumwater.The river flows generally south, through Littlerock, near the Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve, then southwest, passing through the Black River Habitat Management Area and the town of Rochester, before meandering west through the community of Gate and entering Grays Harbor County, where it empties into the ...
Long Beach Peninsula. The Long Beach Peninsula is an arm of land on the southern coast of the state of Washington in the United States.Entirely within Pacific County, it is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the south by the Columbia River, and the east by Willapa Bay.
Grays Harbor College is a public community college in Aberdeen, Washington. Established in 1930, the college sits on a 120-acre (0.49 km 2) campus overlooking the town of Aberdeen and its seaport on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Additional "learning centers" are located in Raymond, Ilwaco, North Aberdeen, and Southside Aberdeen.
Black Lake itself was sometimes called Johnson Lake or Whealdon's Pond. B.A. Seaborg, one of the founders of the Ilwaco railroad, had a sawmill on the lake, where he cut boards to make crates to pack the salmon he canned at his plant (called "Aberdeen Packing Company") on Main Street in Ilwaco. [1]
The lake has no natural outflows, and no significant inflows. The lake is a closed depression, fed and drained by groundwater. Due to this, it experiences rapid, drastic fluctuations in water level that have frequently threatened nearby homes. King County has routinely pumped water out of the lake since the 1990s to reduce flood risk. [2] [3 ...
The Colbert House is a historic house museum owned by Washington State Parks and located in Ilwaco, Washington, at the corner of Quaker and Lake streets. The house was originally built in 1872 and was moved to its current site in 1883. [ 2 ]