Pasco, Washington
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Pasco City Hall
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 Location of Pasco, Washington |
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| Coordinates: 46°14′19″N 119°6′31″W / 46.23861°N 119.10861°WCoordinates: 46°14′19″N 119°6′31″W / 46.23861°N 119.10861°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Washington |
| County | Franklin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-manager |
| • Council |
Mayor Matt Watkins Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Francik Chi Flores Robert Hoffmann Tom Larsen Al Yenney Saul Martinez |
| • City manager | Dave Zabell |
| Area | |
| • City | 34.08 sq mi (88.27 km2) |
| • Land | 30.50 sq mi (78.99 km2) |
| • Water | 3.58 sq mi (9.27 km2) |
| Elevation | 387 ft (118 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 59,781 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 69,451 |
| • Density | 1,960.0/sq mi (756.8/km2) |
| • Urban | 210,975 (US: 171th) |
| • Metro | 279,116 (US: 169th) |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP codes | 99301-99302 |
| Area code | 509 |
| FIPS code | 53-53545 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1513388 |
| Website | City of Pasco |
Mayor Matt Watkins
Pasco (/ˈpæskoʊ/ PAS-koh) is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Washington, United States.
Pasco is one of three cities that make up the Tri-Cities region of the state of Washington. The Tri-Cities is a mid-sized metropolitan area of approximately 279,116 people that also includes the cities of Kennewick and Richland in a 2015 estimate.
Pasco's population was 59,781 at the 2010 census and 70,560 as of the April 1, 2016 Washington State Population estimate.
On October 16, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in the Pasco area, at a site now commemorated by Sacajawea State Park. The area was frequented by fur trappers and gold traders. In the 1880s, the Northern Pacific Railway was built near the Columbia River, bringing many settlers to the area. Pasco was officially incorporated on September 3, 1891. It was named by Virgil Bogue, a construction engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway after Cerro de Pasco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, where he had helped build a railroad. In its early years, it was a small railroad town, but the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam in 1941 brought irrigation and agriculture to the area.
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