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State Route 507 (SR 507) begins at a diamond interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5), co-signed as U.S. Route 12 (US 12) in Centralia. [3] Traveling east as Mellen, Alder and West Cherry Streets, [1] the highway crosses railroad tracks owned by BNSF Railway and used by Amtrak's Cascades and Coast Starlight routes, [4] both of which serve the Centralia Amtrak station. [5]
The origin of the name Tenino, used by the Northern Pacific Railroad for their station when they arrived in 1872, has been debated for over a century. The two main theories given for a century were that Tenino was a Chinook Jargon word for a fork or branch in the trail, or a form of T9o or 10-9-0 used by the railroad for a locomotive number, survey stake, or train car.
The Engineer Topographic Battalion's wartime mission was the development of accurate 4-color topographic maps created through timely survey work, drafting, printing, and distribution of military maps as required by the Allied Armed Forces of the United States. The Battalion was first formed in December 1943 and deactivated in December 1946.
Between 1941 and 1945, the Army Map Service prepared 40,000 maps of all types, covering 400,000 square miles of the Earth's surface. Over 500 million copies were produced during the war. Many were produced by civilian women trained after Pearl Harbor, the " Military Mapping Maidens ."
Skinpah is a transliteration of sk’inpa, the locative form of Tenino sk’in 'cradleboard', a reference to a local rock formation which gave the principal village its name. [4] Various other transliterations and spellings (Skeen, Skin, Skein, Sk’in-pam) are also used to refer to the group.
Mairie de Loevenich (), from the Topographic Survey of the Rhineland by Tranchot/Müffling, sheet 57 (published 1806/07).. A map series is a group of topographic or thematic charts or maps usually having the same scale and cartographic specifications, and with each sheet appropriately identified by its publisher as belonging to the same series.
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Tenino may refer to Tenino, Washington , a city in the U.S. state of Washington Tenino people , a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, also known as the Warm Springs bands