Colville, Washington
| Colville, Washington | |
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Highland Cemetery
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 Location of Colville, Washington |
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| Coordinates: 48°32′35″N 117°54′16″W / 48.54306°N 117.90444°WCoordinates: 48°32′35″N 117°54′16″W / 48.54306°N 117.90444°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Washington |
| County | Stevens |
| Area | |
| • City | 2.93 sq mi (7.59 km2) |
| • Land | 2.93 sq mi (7.59 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,614 ft (492 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 4,673 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 4,719 |
| • Density | 1,594.9/sq mi (615.8/km2) |
| • Urban | 4,966 |
| • CSA | 679,989 (US: 71st) |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| ZIP code | 99114 |
| Area code | 509 |
| FIPS code | 53-14170 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1517983 |
| Website | City of Colville |
Colville is a city in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 4,673 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stevens County.
John Work, an agent for The Hudson's Bay Company, established Fort Colvile near the Kettle Falls fur trading site in 1825. It replaced the Spokane House and the Flathead Post as the main trading center on the Upper Columbia River.
Americans also wanted to operate in this territory. In the first half of the 19th century, the Oregon boundary dispute (or Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Pacific Northwest. It was settled by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which set the new boundary between Canada and the United States at the 49th Parallel, to the north of Fort Colville. The post continued to be used for some time as a center of mining and transportation/supply support associated with gold rushes in the 1850s and 1860s, particularly with the Holcomb Valley Gold Rush in California. After it was abandoned in 1870, some buildings stood until as late as 1910. The site was flooded by Lake Roosevelt after construction of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River.
The Kettle Falls Archeological District, including 17 pre-contact sites, as well as Fort Colville and St. Paul's Mission, were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Some archeological studies were done in the 1960s when the lake was lowered for additional dam construction and others have been undertaken. The district is highly significant to pre-contact and later Native American and United States history.
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