Where:
Stevens County is located in the Northeast corner of Washington State.
We are just North of Spokane and Lincoln County, West of Pend Oreille County,
East of Ferry County and Canada is our neighbor to the North, eh. |
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| Area |
2,541 square miles or 6,580 km²
The Federal Government says
2,478.30 square miles |
with 62 square miles or161 km² of that WATER. (plenty of fishing) |
We have:
- Colville National Forest
- Kaniksu National Forest
- Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
- Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge
- The last free running section of the Columbia River
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our state flag
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| 2008 population estimate 42,050 |
Before the white settlers arrived, Kettle Falls on the Columbia River was a gathering place for 14 tribes that fished there for salmon. In 1811, white explorers embarked downriver from Kettle Falls to what became the Fort Colville trading post. Established in 1825, it was the principal outpost for Hudson's Bay Company operations stretching from the Mississippi River to the Cascade Mountains. |
| Stevens County was named for Washington's first territorial governor, Isaac I. Stevens. |
| Original tribes that make up the Confederated Colville Tribe: the Colville, the Nespelem, the San Poil, the Lake, the Palus, the Wenatchi (Wenatchee), the Chelan, the Entiat, the Methow, the southern Okanogan, the Moses Columbia and the Nez Perce of Chief Joseph's Bands. |
Code of the West
adopted by Stevens County Commissioners |
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