Olympia, Washington Olympia, Washington City of Olympia (From top left to bottom right) Old Capitol Building, East Olympia, Interstate 5 at the junction of U.S.
Route 101, Port of Olympia, Downtown from Capitol Lake, Washington State Capitol, Salmon sculpture, Mount Rainier, Olympic Mountains and Swantown Marina, Percival Landing Park.
(From top left to bottom right) Old Capitol Building, East Olympia, Interstate 5 at the junction of U.S.
Route 101, Port of Olympia, Downtown from Capitol Lake, Washington State Capitol, Salmon sculpture, Mount Rainier, Olympic Mountains and Swantown Marina, Percival Landing Park.
Thurston County Washington Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Olympia Highlighted.svg Olympia, Washington is positioned in the US Olympia, Washington - Olympia, Washington Olympia is a primary cultural center of the Puget Sound region.
Olympia is positioned 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Seattle, the biggest city in the state of Washington, and falls inside the borders of the Seattle CSA.
Main article: History of Olympia, Washington The site of Olympia has been home to Lushootseed-speaking citizens s for thousands of years, including Squaxin, Nisqually, Puyallup, Chehalis, Suquamish, and Duwamish.
Congress established the Customs District of Puget Sound for Washington Territory and Olympia became the home of the customs home.
In 1896, Olympia became the home of the Olympia Brewing Company, which brewed Olympia Beer until 2003.
In 1967, the state council allowed the creation of The Evergreen State College in Olympia.
Since 1984, Olympia has also been home to the South Puget Sound Community College.
Olympia has turn into a core for artists and musicians, and has been titled one of the best college suburbs in the country for its vibrant downtown and access to outside activities. Astronaut Photography of Olympia Washington taken from the International Space Station (ISS) Olympia is positioned at 47 2 33 N 122 53 35 W (47.042418, 122.893077). The town/city of Olympia is positioned at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet.
Much of the lower region of downtown Olympia sits on reclaimed land.
The metros/cities of Lacey and Tumwater border Olympia.
November through January are Olympia's rainiest months.
Seasonal snow flurry for 1981 2010 averaged 10.8 inches (27.4 cm) but has historically ranged from trace amounts in 1991 92 to 81.5 in (207 cm) in 1968 69. Olympia averages 50 inches (1,270 mm) of rain annually and has a year-round average of 75% cloud cover.
Annual rain has ranged from 29.92 in (760 mm) in 1952 to 66.71 in (1,694 mm) in 1950; for water year (October 1 September 30) precipitation, the range is 32.71 in (831 mm) in 2000 01 to 72.57 in (1,843 mm) in 1998 99. According to one MSNBC study, Olympia had more rainy days per year on average over the past 30 years than any other town/city in the lower 48 states. With a reconstructionof record dating back to 1948, extreme temperatures have ranged from 8 F ( 22 C) on January 1, 1979, up to 104 F (40 C), most recently on July 29, 2009; the record cold everyday maximum is 18 F ( 8 C) on January 31, 1950, while, conversely, the record warm everyday minimum is 69 F (21 C) on July 22, 2006. On average, there are 6.3 days annually with temperatures reaching 90 F (32 C), 1.8 days where the temperature stays at or below freezing all day, and 78 evenings where the low reaches the freezing mark. The average window for freezing temperatures is October 8 through May 3, allowing a burgeoning season of 157 days, almost 100 days shorter than in close-by Seattle. Climate data for Olympia Regional Airport, Washington (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1948 present) Olympia has a wide array of enhance parks and nature conservation areas.
Other parks include Priest Point Park, Burfoot Park, Sunrise Park, and Yauger Park, which is home to one of Olympia's enhance skate parks, including Friendly Grove, which is nestled in a small Eastside Community, and Trillium Park, which was created by the accomplishments of adjoining neighborhood associations with the easement of private property.
The Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge is positioned just outside Olympia, as is the Capitol State Forest.
Olympia was historically dependent on artesian waters.
The artesian well at Artesian Commons park, a former parking lot, is active. Another still flows at the corner of Olympia Avenue and Washington Street.
Mc - Allister Springs, the chief water origin for Olympia, is fed by artesian wells, and the former Olympia Brewery is supplied by 26 artesian wells.
Recent accomplishments to protect and preserve the no-charge flowing artesian well on 4th Ave in downtown Olympia began in 1991 when Jim Ingersoll, a small-town psychologist, called on the town/city council to acquire the well and precarious it as a improve park.
With hundreds of citizens using the well every day, improve support interval to turn into "The Friends of Artesians," an informal organization of promotes who over the course of 20 years mapped and researched the history of artesian wells in Olympia, raised cash to test water character and make improvements to the site and kept the vision of a no-charge flowing improve well alive.
In downtown Olympia, accomplishments to preserve the use of artesian water at the one remaining enhance well has been the mission of H2 - Olympia: Artesian Well Advocates.
In 2011, the town/city of Olympia committed $50,000 towards improvements of an artesian well, positioned in a parking lot that was recently purchased by the city. Renovations at the artesian well were instead of in late 2011, including surface improvements, solar lighting, and a raised region to fill bottles.
Olympia's chief enhance school precinct is the Olympia School District.
Olympia School District enrolled 9,231 pupils in K-12, based on the 2005 06 school year enrollment report.
The school precinct has a total of 18 schools: 11 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and 3 high schools.
Its high schools are Olympia High School (originally known as William Winlock Miller High School), Capital High School, and Avanti High School.
In the 2007 2008 school year, Olympia began the new Parent Partnership Program, which provides more opportunities to homeschooling families.
Olympia's online high school, Olympia Regional Learning Academy (ORLA), is also part of the same program.
Private elementary schools include Olympia Waldorf School, Olympia Community School, St.
Private middle schools include Olympia Waldorf School and NOVA School.
In addition to major & secondary schools, Olympia has a number of establishments of higher learning, including The Evergreen State College, South Puget Sound Community College, and Saint Martin's University.
The Capitol Theater, home of the Olympia Film Society.
Olympia is a county-wide center for fine arts.
A number of thespian experiences are available with companies such as Animal Fire Theater, Olympia Family Theater, Theater Artists Olympia (TAO), Olympia Little Theater, and Harlequin Productions at the historic State Theater.
The Olympia Symphony Orchestra performs five regular season concerts at the Washington Center and two pop concerts.
Visual art venues include some of the small-town coffeehouses, Olympia Coffee Roasting Co., Batdorf & Bronson, Caffe Vita, and Obsidian in downtown.
Murals and enhance art installations of sculpture are prevalent in Olympia and are especially featured on the State Capitol Campus and along Percival Landing on the urban coastline.
Notable art venues near Olympia include Art in Ecology, homed in Washington Department of Ecology's 322,000-square-foot, three-story building on the ground of Saint Martin's University.
The Evergreen State College, northwest of Olympia, has a professionally curated loggia with rotating shows in the Dan Evans Library building.
To the south of Olympia, Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park offers an 80-acre sculpture garden and art loggia.
Each year, the Olympia Film Society (OFS) produces a film festival and fosters film and video education in Olympia.
On the fourth Saturday in April, with respect to Earth Day, Olympia is host to one of the region's biggest improve celebrations the Procession of the Species.
Held in conjunction with the city's biannual Arts Walk, the Procession is ordered by the community-based non-profit organization, Earthbound Productions, and is the culmination of an annual Community Art Studio that is no-charge and open to the public. In its July 2009 Best of America feature, Reader's Digest periodical honored the Procession of the Species with the top spot in its "can't resist" parades and processions list. Open to all, the Procession of the Species attracts up to 30,000 viewers, while its costumed participants of all ages incessantly number almost 3,000.
Olympia is the home of the Oly Rollers, the small-town women's flat track roller derby league whose travel team (the Cosa Nostra Donnas) became the 2009 nationwide champions of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) by winning the nationwide "Declaration of Derby" tournament in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 15, 2009. Intercity Transit Bus 920 on Route 12 to downtown Olympia, Washington.
Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, and the encircling area are primarily served by Intercity Transit, with connections to Grays Harbor Transit, Mason Transit Authority, Pierce Transit, and Sound Transit.
Intercity Transit's Olympia Express provides service to Lakewood and Tacoma, with connections to county-wide bus and commuter rail service. In 2009 Intercity Transit won an award for America's best Public Transportation System in the midsize category by the American Public Transportation Association.
The Olympia Regional Airport, directed by the Port of Olympia is positioned just south of Olympia in Tumwater.
Olympia has had a Public, Educational and Government access tv station since 1983, called Thurston Community Media.
In 2012 North - America - Talk.com, an online aggregate for small-town improve news including Thurston - Talk.com, was established with command posts located in Olympia.
Main article: List of citizens from Olympia, Washington Carrie Brownstein, musician and actress, visited college in Olympia.
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, visited college in Olympia.
Grammy-winning musician Rickie Lee Jones visited high school in Olympia.
Human rights activist Rachel Corrie lived in Olympia before to her death in 2003.
Peter Kennedy, 5-time nationwide champion, 1952 Winter Olympics silver medalist in pairs figure skating, was born in Olympia.
Macklemore, recording artist, visited college in Olympia.
USA Rugby player Scott La - Valla was born and raised in Olympia and graduated from North Thurston High School.
Common - Action Nonprofit organization positioned in Olympia Capitol Lakefair Annual festival in Olympia Olympia Airport Located in Tumwater Olympia High School (Washington) The Evergreen State College Higher education institution in Olympia "History of Olympia, Washington".
City of Olympia Elected Officials Chronology, retrieved 2012-09-16 "Station Name: WA OLYMPIA AP".
"WMO Climate Normals for OLYMPIA, WA 1961 1990".
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"City of Olympia Will Protect, Improve Artesian Well.".
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