Leavenworth, Washington Leavenworth, Washington Leavenworth's chief street reflects its modelling on a Bavarian village Leavenworth's chief street reflects its modelling on a Bavarian village Location of Leavenworth, Washington Location of Leavenworth, Washington State Washington Website City of Leavenworth Leavenworth is a town/city in Chelan County, Washington, United States.
Leavenworth was officially incorporated on September 5, 1906.
The barns relocated to Wenatchee in the 1920s, greatly affecting Leavenworth's economy.
In 1962, the Project LIFE (Leavenworth Improvement For Everyone) Committee was formed in partnership with the University of Washington to investigate strategies to revitalize the struggling logging town.
Leavenworth is home to the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, which opened in 1995 and includes more than 5,000 nutcrackers dating from prehistoric to modern. Leavenworth hosts an annual Oktoberfest celebration. Leavenworth's transformation into a infamous town was inspired, and assisted, by Solvang, California.
Later, the Washington town of Winthrop followed Leavenworth's example and adopted a town theme. In November 2007, Good Morning America went to Leavenworth for ts for the Globe where GMA helped light up the town for the Christmas Holiday.
Leavenworth was also titled the Ultimate Holiday Town USA by A&E. Leavenworth's geographic coordinates are 47 35 47 N 120 39 55 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.25 square miles (3.24 km2), of which, 1.23 square miles (3.19 km2) is territory and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) is water. Leavenworth sits on the southeast side of the North Cascades collage, which is a group of terranes that accreted to North America all about the same time.
During the Eocene epoch, about 50 mya the region was once again cut into vertical slices, creating among others, the Leavenworth fault and the Entiat fault.
Leavenworth is on the edge of the graben, in fact the Leavenworth fault runs through the edge of town.
The middle Cretaceous was when the region to the west and southwest of Leavenworth was created, this was the uplift of the Mt.Stuart batholith, forming the granite modern which we see today in Icicle Ridge and Tumwater Mountain.
During the Pleistocene and on into the Holocene epoch Leavenworth would have been a cold place to live.
Leavenworth actually sits on the terminal moraine of that glacier.
A drive through the residentiary parts of town display many glacier erratic's that originated 20 miles away up the Icicle valley near Mt.Stuart.
The temporary dam, in conjunction with one of the Lake Missoula floods, caused the water to flow back up the Wenatchee valley where it was stopped by the glacier at Leavenworth.
As the dominant edge of the glacier interacted with the flood, ice rafts formed carrying granite erratics from the Stuart batholith ending up in the town of Dryden about 15 miles down valley from Leavenworth.
As the glacier retreated, the south side of Leavenworth was a lake dammed up by the moraine.
Leavenworth has a continental Mediterranean climate (Koppen Dsb) with summers characterised by hot, sunny days and chilly evenings, and cold, snowy winters.
The snowiest season has been from July 1968 to June 1969 with 217.2 inches (5.52 m) and the least snowy from July 1962 to June 1963 when just 19.4 inches (0.49 m) of snow fell.
On occasions, as in January and February 1929, and Januaries 1930, 1937, 1949, 1950, 1957 and 1969, very cold and dry Arctic air from Canada can invade the basin, turning the weather much colder and incessantly clearer: the lowest temperature recorded in Leavensworth has been 36 F ( 37.8 C) on December 30, 1968, though only 5.5 mornings will fall to or below 0 F or 17.8 C and various mild winters never see such cold temperatures.
The wettest "rain year" has been from July 1955 to June 1956 with a total of 41.13 inches (1,044.7 mm) and the driest from July 1929 to June 1930 with 11.77 inches (299.0 mm).
The spring months see gradual warming and drying, though frosts remain incessant into April over 168 mornings amid an average year fall to or below freezing and the average last freeze is on May 16, with 2016 became the first year to record a last frost in March.
Climate data for Leavenworth, Washington (1971-2000; extremes since 1914) Average snowy days ( 0.1 inch) 9.2 5.1 2.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 3.8 9.1 29.5 Downtown Leavenworth, 1,500 feet (460 m) below, as viewed from the contiguous Tumwater Mountain on an August afternoon Leavenworth has Amtrak rail service at Leavenworth "Icicle" Station which recently re-opened with a new station in September 2009.
Leavenworth also has a stop for Northwestern Trailways bus at U.S.
Route 2 and Icicle road. This bus can be cross-ticketed with Amtrak Thruway. This Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service operates as redundant service along the Empire Builder route between Seattle and Spokane to add additional capacity and furnish service amid other times of the day.
The Leavenworth Free Trolley that circulates between U.S.
Leavenworth Taxi also has a shuttle that operates inside the greater Leavenworth area. It stops at both the Northwestern Trailways/Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach bus stop and the Amtrak rail station.
"Leavenworth -- Thumbnail History - History - Link.org".
"NM About Us ~ Leavenworth Washington's Nutcracker Museum".
"Climatography of the United States No.
20: 1971-2000 Leavenworth 3 S, WA" (PDF).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Leavenworth - LEA".
"Trolley Service in Leavenworth Washington".
"Leavenworth DART".
"Leavenworth Shuttle & Taxi".
Washington state geology department, 1963 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leavenworth, Washington.
Leavenworth, Washington travel guide from Wikivoyage City of Leavenworth website Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce Leavenworth, Washington at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Chelan County, Washington, United States
Categories:
Cities in Washington (state)Cities in Chelan County, Washington - Wenatchee East Wenatchee urbane region - Populated places established in 1906 - 1906 establishments in Washington (state)
|