Spokane Valley, Washington City of Spokane Valley Official logo of City of Spokane Valley Spokane Valley in Spokane Spokane Valley is a town/city in Spokane County, Washington, United States, and the biggest suburb of Spokane.
The town/city incorporated as the City of Spokane Valley on March 31, 2003.
Spokane Valley is titled after the valley of the Spokane River, in which it is located.
Before becoming an incorporated city, the region was and still is alluded to as "The Valley" by inhabitants of the Spokane Metro Area.
For thousands of years, the Spokane Valley region was populated by members of the Upper Band of the Interior Salish Indians, calling themselves "Sn-tutuul-i", the meaning of which is not known.
The Spokanes were a peaceful citizens , on friendly terms with neighboring tribes and later the fur traders and missionaries who came to the area.
Even with their many years of acceptance of the white settlers, and the calming influence of Chief Garry (sometimes Spokan Garry), the Spokanes protested the loss of their lands by joining in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The final battle, in 1858, culminated in the Spokane Valley with the destruction of over 800 of their horses, their food, and teepees.
The Spokanes were eventually forced from the lands of their ancestors to a reservation north of the Spokane River, just west of the Spokane area.
The first permanent white settler in the Spokane Valley was a retired French-Canadian trapper, Antoine Plante, who assembled a small cabin near the Spokane River in 1849.
In 1850, Plante constructed and directed the first ferry athwart the Spokane River, the only means of crossing the river in the area.
"Charley" Kendall established a store on the north side of the Spokane River.
A small community, known as Spokane Bridge, began to build up near the bridge.
Interestingly, the history of the settlement of the Spokane Valley predates the history of the town/city of Spokane, Washington.
Spokane Valley holds many of the "firsts" for the Spokane area.
In addition to being home to the area's first settler, Antoine Plante, the Spokane Valley had the first company and first ferry in 1850; the first store (1862) and bridge (1864); the first home (1866); and the first postal service (1867).
Within a several years, Spokane was tied to the outside world by five transcontinental barns s, making it the core of commerce it remains today.
Irrigation accomplishments stimulated populace growth in the Spokane Valley decidedly in the early part of the 20th century.
Developers and real estate speculators tapped into close-by lakes, the Spokane River and the aquifer lying under the valley in an accomplishment to turn the dry territory into saleable agricultural land.
In 1899, the Spokane Valley Land and Water Co., later owned by long-time irrigation promote D.C.
In 1905, the Spokane Canal Company assembled a canal to irrigate the Otis Orchard region with water from Newman Lake, and Modern Irrigation and Land Company tapped into the underground aquifer to irrigate 3,000 acres (12 km ) in Opportunity.
Extensive apple orchards thrived in the gravelly soil of the Valley, and by 1912 almost 2 million apple trees had been planted.
A huge packing plant was assembled in 1911 by the Spokane Valley Growers Union.
With the exception of the incorporated Town of Millwood, Washington, the Spokane Valley was advanced as townships with no governmental functions.
A several Spokane Valley townships were advanced for residentiary and/or company purposes.
All other Valley townships were advanced as irrigation districts and owe their existence to their agricultural roots.
Between 1901 and 1915, the townships of Orchard Avenue, Greenacres, Otis Orchards, Opportunity, Vera, Dishman, Liberty Lake, Newman Lake, East Spokane, Mica and Chester were platted.
Pasadena Park is a populated place positioned in Spokane County at latitude 47.697 and longitude -117.283, North of Millwood athwart the Spokane River that existed at least as early as 1916. The Spokane Valley was promoted as a wonderful place to live.
The beauty of the encircling area, pleasant communities, fertile farmlands, company opportunities, outside sports and activities, small-town recreational areas and improve organizations caused it to be called "Spokane Valley, the Valley Bountiful".
Tied to Spokane, small-town lakes and Coeur d'Alene by barns s and bus systems, the citizens of the Valley appreciateed a full life.
While jobs were scarce amid the Great Depression, most citizens in the Spokane Valley had enough territory to expanded food for their families.
The Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce adhered to a positive agenda throughout these difficult times.
They placed street signs on Valley roads and in an accomplishment to show solidarity with Spokane, east-west roads were retitled to correspond with Spokane's roads.
Observing that fires were a constant and catastrophic lured for region residents, the Chamber lobbied to begin a fire protection precinct in the Valley.
Their accomplishments were prosperous and Valley inhabitants were first offered fire protection in 1940, with the formation of Spokane County Fire Protection District Number One.
The citizens of the valley always maintained independence from the City of Spokane on its borders.
The first small-town newspaper, The Spokane Valley Herald, was launched in 1920.
Other than Millwood, which incorporated in 1927 and Liberty Lake, Washington which did so in 2001, the Valley remained unincorporated throughout the 20th century.
Industry began to replace agriculture more quickly after the culmination of Grand Coulee Dam in 1941, which combined inexpensive electricity with readily available water from the Spokane River and the extensive aquifer which underlies the Valley.
In the 1950s a further transformation swept the valley as the post World War Two populace boom began to push into the valley, replacing most of the remaining apple orchards with tracts of homes.
In the 1990s and the early part of the twenty-first century the Spokane Valley continued to expanded more urban, becoming one of the quickest burgeoning regions in the state.
The urban evolution encompassed the opening of the long-awaited Spokane Valley Mall in 1997, the establishment of dozens of other businesses along company corridors, and the evolution of the Mirabeau Point improve complex.
The City of Spokane Valley incorporated on March 31, 2003, after being turned down in four previous popular votes.
At its creation, it was the third-largest newly incorporated town/city in US history (after Centennial, Colorado, which incorporated in 2001; and Miami Gardens, Florida, which incorporated about five weeks before Spokane Valley).
The situation of the City of Spokane Valley as an urban outgrowth of Spokane is very similar to the outgrowth of Sandy Springs, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
Sandy Springs would itself incorporate on December 1, 2005, passing City of Spokane Valley for third place on the list of biggest newly incorporated U.S.
Night aerial view of Spokane Valley (foreground) and Spokane (background) in December 2014 Spokane Valley lies along both banks of the Spokane River as it flows between Idaho and the City of Spokane.
Spokane Valley town/city proper comprises of the communities of Dishman, Greenacres, Opportunity, Trentwood, Veradale, Yardley, and parts of Chester and Otis Orchards.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 38.06 square miles (98.57 km2), of which, 37.77 square miles (97.82 km2) is territory and 0.29 square miles (0.75 km2) is water. Because the City of Spokane Valley shares its name with the unincorporated region it was carved from, the term "Spokane Valley" is often used in reference to an region greater than that which falls inside the town/city limits.
Spokane Valley experiences a Mediterranean Climate (Koppen Csb), closely bordering on a dry-summer continental climate (Koppen Dsb).
Spokane Valley is primarily served by Central Valley School District, which also serves Liberty Lake, Washington, as well as areas of Spokane County that are not incorporated.
More than 12,600 pupils attend one of its 22 schools. Private schools in the town/city include Valley Christian School.
Additional school districts that serve the town/city include East Valley School District and West Valley School District.
The Spokane Valley Heritage Museum opened its doors on August 18, 2005, and is positioned in the historic Opportunity Township Hall.
The exhibition's goal is to collect, preserve and exhibit the history and culture of the Spokane Valley for the education and inspiration of the community.
"History of the Spokane Valley".
Spokane Valley Museum brings a blast from past .
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