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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 Complex Okanogan August 15 133,450 Newby Lake Fire [35] Okanogan July 4 5,065 [n 2] North Star Fire [36] Ferry / Okanogan 218,138 Okanogan Complex [34] Okanogan Complex: Okanogan August 15 304,782 [37] 195 [25] 3 Included the Lime Belt, Tunk Block, Twisp River and Nine Mile Fires. The Lime Belt Fire originated as three separate fires ...
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 ...
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]
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]
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.
The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle is a newspaper serving North-Central Washington's Okanogan County. The weekly newspaper also covers Ferry County and parts of Douglas County . The newspaper's primary readership is on the U.S. Route 97 corridor stretching from Pateros, Wash. , north to the U.S.–Canada border.
Wauconda is located on a plateau about 23 miles (37 km) east of Tonasket, Washington, near Wauconda Pass and the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest. State Route 20 travels through the settlement. [11] It is near the headwaters of a fork of Granite Creek, which empties into the Sanpoil River at nearby Republic, Washington. [12]