Colville, Washington Colville, Washington Location of Colville, Washington Location of Colville, Washington Country United States State Washington Website City of Colville Colville is a town/city in Stevens County, Washington, United States.
The populace was 4,673 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county 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 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 Kettle Falls Archeological District, including 17 pre-contact sites, as well as Fort Colville and St.
The precinct is highly momentous to pre-contact and later Native American and United States history. Army established a new Fort Colville at Pinkney City, Washington, about 3 miles NE of the current town/city of Colville.
In late 1871, with the resolution of Hudson's Bay Company territory claims, Governor Edward Selig Salomon directed John Wynne to accept those lands, including those presently part of the City of Colville. City evolution moved to the present locale in the Colville River Valley before to 1882.
Hooker filed the first plat in Stevens County with the name "Belmont" or "Bellmond" He was encouraged to change the name to Colville, so that the governmental center of county could be moved to this location.
On December 28, 1883, the Stevens County Board of County Commissioners, including county commissioner John U.
Hofstetter, held a special session regarding the removal of county records to Colville from the governmental center of county of Pinkney City.
In that meeting, commissioners allowed moving the town/city jail to Colville, if proprietors provided a block of territory for county offices.
County officers were allowed to move into a building owned by John U.
On January 1, 1884, the Stevens County courthouse moved to Colville. City tradition says that Colville was established by John U.
Hofstetter. It was officially incorporated as a town/city on June 7, 1890.
In the 1950s, the Colville Air Force Station was advanced and directed in the hills above the town/city as part of the Air Defense Command's network of radar stations.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.93 square miles (7.59 km2), all of it land. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Colville has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dsb" on climate maps.
Average rain days 12 9 8 7 9 9 4 4 6 8 11 13 100 As of 2000, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $32,168, and the median income for a family was $40,466.
About 10.4% of families and 15.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 14.9% of those under age 18 and 15.7% of those age 65 or over.
As of the census of 2010, there were 4,673 citizens , 2,043 homeholds, and 1,161 families living in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 92.4% White, 0.1% African American, 2.1% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 1.2% from other competitions, and 3.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,043 homeholds of which 28.8% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 40.1% were married couples residing together, 12.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.2% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 40.4 years.
The area's economy is based chiefly on agriculture and the timber and quarrying industry, manufacturing, and county-wide offices of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and U.S.
United States Geological Survey.
"2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File".
John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company establishes Fort Spokane in 1812 History - Link.org Essay 5101 Washington State Archives AR1-J-1 Governor Edward S.
"Colville's First Skyscraper Moved From Main Street".
(Eugene Woldemar), 1833-1916, Preliminary agricultural map of Colville region, Washington Ter, 1883, viewed on Legacy Washington State, https://sos.wa.gov/legacy/maps_detail.aspx?m=124 September 11, 2014.
Stevens County Board of County Commissioner's Journal Book A 1860-1883 United States Enumeration Bureau.
"COLVILLE BASIC, WASHINGTON (451630)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
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