Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver, Washington City of Vancouver Skyline of Vancouver viewed from the Oregon side of the Columbia River; House of Providence; Old Apple Tree Park; Fort Vancouver; Esther Short Park; Vancouver Barracks Skyline of Vancouver viewed from the Oregon side of the Columbia River; House of Providence; Old Apple Tree Park; Fort Vancouver; Esther Short Park; Vancouver Barracks Flag of Vancouver, Washington Vancouver, Washington is positioned in the US Vancouver, Washington - Vancouver, Washington Named for George Vancouver Website City of Vancouver Vancouver is a town/city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S.
State of Washington, and the biggest suburb of Portland, Oregon. Incorporated in 1857, it is the fourth biggest city in the state, with a populace of 161,791 as of April 1, 2010 census. Vancouver is the governmental center of county of Clark County and forms part of the Portland-Vancouver urbane area, the 23rd biggest urbane region in the United States.
Originally established in 1825 around Fort Vancouver, a fur trading outpost, the town/city is positioned on the Washington-Oregon border along the Columbia River, directly north of Portland.
91 on its list of best places in America to live. In 2016, Wallet - Hub rates Vancouver the 39th best place to live for families in the US. Vancouver shares its name with the larger town/city of Vancouver in southern British Columbia, Canada, roughly 300 mi (480 km) to the north.
Both metros/cities were titled after sea captain George Vancouver, but the American town/city is older; Vancouver, B.C., was incorporated 29 years after the incorporation of Vancouver, Washington, and more than 60 years after the name Vancouver was first used in reference to the historic Fort Vancouver trading post on the Columbia River.
City's name to Fort Vancouver to reduce confusion with its larger and better-known northern neighbor.
Many Pacific Northwest inhabitants distinguish between the two metros/cities by referring to the Canadian town/city as "Vancouver, B.C." and the United States town/city as "Vancouver, Washington," or "Vancouver, USA." This nickname has also long been used to refer to Vancouver, B.C., as well.
Fort Vancouver in 1859 City of Vancouver as shown in 1888 map from Clarke County Auditor, Washington Territory.
Wooden ship yard in Vancouver, 1918 The Vancouver, Washington, region was inhabited by a range of Native American tribes, most recently the Chinook and Klickitat nations, with permanent settlements of timber longhouses. The Chinookan and Klickitat names for the region were announcedly Skit-so-to-ho and Ala-si-kas, in the order given, meaning "land of the mud-turtles." First European contact was made in 1775, with roughly half of the native populace dead from smallpox before the Lewis and Clark expedition camped in the region in 1806. Within another fifty years, other actions and diseases such as measles, malaria and influenza had reduced the Chinookan populace from an estimated 80,000 "to a several dozen refugees, landless, slaveless and swindled out of a treaty." Meriwether Lewis wrote that the Vancouver region was "the only desired situation for settlement west of the Rocky Mountains." The first permanent European settlement did not occur until 1824, when Fort Vancouver was established as a fur trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Before 1845, American Henry Williamson laid out a large claim west of the Hudson's Bay Company (including part of the present-day Port of Vancouver), called Vancouver City and properly registered his claim at the U.S.
Courthouse in Oregon City, before leaving for California. In 1850, Amos Short traced over the claim of Williamson and titled the town Columbia City.
It changed to Vancouver in 1855. The City of Vancouver was incorporated on January 23, 1857. Based on an act in the 1859 60 legislature, Vancouver was briefly the capital of Washington Territory, before capital status was returned to Olympia, Washington by a 2 1 ruling of the territory's supreme court, in conformity with Isaac Stevens' preference and concern that adjacency to border with Oregon might give some of the state's influence away to Oregon. Soon after leaving Vancouver, he resigned from the army and did not serve again until the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Other eminent generals to have served in Vancouver include George B.
Army existence in Vancouver was very strong, as the Department of the Columbia assembled and moved to Vancouver Barracks, the military reservation for which stretched from the river to what is presently Fourth Plain Boulevard and was the biggest Army base in the region until surpassed by Fort Lewis, 120 miles (190 km) to the north.
Vancouver became the end point for two ultra-long flights from Moscow, USSR over the North Pole.
Chkalov was originally scheduled to territory at an airstrip in close-by Portland, Oregon, but redirected at the last minute to Vancouver's Pearson Airfield.
Today there is a street titled for him in Vancouver.
Separated from Oregon until 1917, when the Interstate Bridge began to replace ferries, Vancouver had three shipyards just downstream which produced ships for World War I before World War II brought an enormous economic boom.
This influx of shipyard workers boosted the populace from 18,000 to over 80,000 in just a several months, dominant to the creation of the Vancouver Housing Authority and six new residentiary developments: Fruit Valley, Fourth Plain Village, Bagley Downs, Ogden Meadows, Burton Homes and Mc - Loughlin Heights.
Vancouver has recently experienced conflicts with other Clark County communities because of rapid expansion in the area.
The city's first annexation more than doubled its size in 1909, with the biggest annexation of 1997 adding 11,258 acres (45.56 km2) and 58,171 residents. As a result of urban expansion and the 1997 annexation, Vancouver is often thought of as split between two areas, East and West Vancouver, divided by NE Andresen Road.
West Vancouver is home to downtown Vancouver and some of the more historical parts of the city, as well as recent high-density mixed-use development.
More than one-third of the Vancouver urban area's populace lives in unincorporated urban region north of the town/city limits, including the communities of Hazel Dell, Felida, Orchards and Salmon Creek.
If county leaders had allowed a primary annexation plan in 2006, Vancouver would have passed Tacoma and Spokane to turn into the state's second-largest city. Vancouver is positioned just north of the Columbia River, just west of where the Columbia River Gorge bisects the volcanic Cascade Range and just east of where the Willamette River enters the Columbia.
The town/city of Vancouver is in the Western Lowlands region of Washington. When clouds do not blanket the Puget-Willamette trough formed by the Cascade and Coast Range, Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Jefferson and Mount Adams are all visible from Vancouver.
Vancouver lies just north of Portland, Oregon and shares a similar climate.
Unsheltered by the Willamette Valley, Vancouver has historically seen colder temperatures, including "silver thaw" storms where freezing precipitation cakes limbs and power lines.
Such storms can paralyze Vancouver.
A F1 tornado hit on January 10, 2008 just after noon causing moderate damage along a 2-mile (3.2 km) path from Vancouver Lake to the unincorporated Hazel Dell area.
Because many Vancouver inhabitants work in Portland, there is typically momentous rush hour traffic congestion on two bridges that cross the Columbia River the Interstate Bridge and the Glenn Jackson Bridge.
Climate data for Vancouver, Washington The Vancouver economy is characterized by border financial and business trends with neighboring Portland, Oregon.
The state of Washington levies no individual or corporate income taxes and levies a property tax below the nationwide average and a revenue tax above the nationwide median. The State of Oregon has even lower property taxes and no revenue tax but one of the highest state income taxes. As a result, many Vancouver inhabitants prefer to shop in neighboring Portland where they do not pay revenue taxes then live and work in Vancouver where they do not pay state income tax.
Conversely, the town/city is less favored by pupils and young grownups. In 2003, 70% of workers in Vancouver worked in Clark County.
Vancouver inhabitants "shop at their own risk" when attempting to avoid the revenue tax in Washington, although the rule is rarely, if ever, enforced except for purchases requiring registration, such as motor vehicles.
The taxation and demographics of the region depresses the retail zone of Vancouver's economy. Oregon has stricter evolution laws to protect the timber industry; therefore, Vancouver tends to attract a higher proportion of the region's widespread development.
The voting base also led to rejection of extension of Portland's light-rail fitness into the town/city for a several years. In 2013, Washington transitioned away from being a control state.
The economic history of Vancouver reflects the region.
Helens, Oregon to Kalama, Washington, early downtown evolution was concentrated around Washington Street (where ferries arrived), lumber and Vancouver Barracks activities such as a large spruce foundry for manufacturing aircraft s.
With the Interstate Bridge and Bonneville Dam Vancouver saw an industrialized boom in the 1940s, including the Kaiser shipyard and Alcoa, as well as a Boise Cascade paper mill, just west of the Interstate Bridge. As the old-growth forests were depleted and heavy trade left the United States, Vancouver's economy has largely changed to high tech and service trade jobs, with many inhabitants commuting to Portland.
Vancouver includes the corporate command posts for Nautilus, Inc.
The Port of Vancouver USA operates a port on the Columbia River, which separates Oregon to the south and Washington to the north.
The Vancouver Energy universal is a proposed crude petroleum transport core in the Port of Vancouver USA.
The hospital is the biggest employer in the town/city of Vancouver.
3 Vancouver Public Schools 2,203 7 City of Vancouver 962 8 The Vancouver Clinic 912 In 1997, the town/city of Vancouver decided to dedicate the next 15 20 years to redeveloping and revitalizing the downtown core, west of I-5 and south of Evergreen Boulevard.
In June 2010, the City of Vancouver agreed to purchase the former downtown Columbian office building for use as a new town/city hall.
In 2011, the town/city merged five separate buildings housing 300 employees into one at the new City Hall, positioned at 415 W.
The Fort Vancouver Regional Library District opened a new, award-winning library on C Street at Evergreen Boulevard in 2011.
See also: Fort Vancouver Regional Library District Vancouver has two school districts: Vancouver Public Schools and Evergreen School District.
The Vancouver Public Schools cover most of west Vancouver and has seven high schools: Hudson's Bay High School, Columbia River High School, Fort Vancouver High School, Lewis and Clark High School, Skyview High School, Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, and Vancouver i - Tech Preparatory (grades 6 12).
It also has six middle schools: Alki Middle School, Discovery Middle School, Gaiser Middle School, Jason Lee Middle School, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, and Mc - Loughlin Middle School.
Washington State University Vancouver, in January 2014.
Vancouver Public Schools' elementary schools include Sarah J.
The Evergreen School District covers most of east Vancouver and has seven high schools: Evergreen High School, Mountain View High School, Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School, Heritage High School, Union High School, Legacy High School, and the Clark County Skills Center.
Vancouver is also home to the Washington School for the Deaf and Washington School for the Blind, and (through Evergreen School District) Home Choice Academy, a school for home-schoolers.
Washington State University, Vancouver Mother Joseph was one of the first architects in the region, and because of its mostly long history, Vancouver includes a range of buildings.
In addition to the reconstructed Fort Vancouver at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, the town/city was titled one of the National Register of Historic Places' "Dozen Distinctive Destinations" for 2003. Other eminent buildings in Vancouver include: The Hilton Hotel and Vancouver Convention Center athwart from Esther Short Park In the early 2000s, Vancouver began seeing a revitalization of small-town art scene and cultural affairs.
Many of Vancouver's art arcades are positioned in downtown Vancouver, and in 2014, the City Council formally designated an "Arts District" in the downtown core. The Kiggins Theatre positioned inside the Downtown Vancouver Art District, was assembled in 1936 by architect Day Hillborn.
Kiggins, an entrepreneur and politician who cut a swath through town in the early 20th century, serving as Vancouver's mayor for 15 non-consecutive years between 1908 and 1935.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra first formed in the late 1970s.
Since the mid-1960s, Vancouver hosted a Fourth of July fireworks display on the grounds of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site that draws many citizens to the city.
Due to the death of key organizer "Mister Fireworks" Jim Larson and a poor economy, the show was not held in 2009. A shorter, redesigned show debuted in 2010 and brought in roughly 35,000 citizens . The annual event is now managed by the Fort Vancouver National Trust and features live music, food and entertainment all day on the Fort Vancouver parade grounds, along with a fireworks display synchronized with music. Late August features the Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival in Esther Short Park, which brought 13,500 attendees and which is considered the biggest jazz festival in the Pacific Northwest. Vancouver is positioned inside the Portland media market for print, radio, and tv media.
The Van - Cougar: Weekly journal of Washington State University Vancouver The Vancouver Voice was southwest Washington's only alternative periodical, presented from 2006 to 2011.
The Vancouver Vector is Vancouver's newest alternative newspaper, beginning printed announcement in February 2013.
Vancouver Social is a news/media website utilizing civil media to cover Clark County.
See also: Port of Vancouver USA Vancouver's enhance transit is serviced by C-Tran.
Vancouver has two interstate motorways, I-5 and I-205, both of which run north south, athwart the Columbia River into Portland and toward Seattle.
SR 14 begins at I-5 in downtown Vancouver and makes its way east.
SR 500 begins from I-5 at 39th Street in north Vancouver, travels east connecting with I-205, and continues east into the suburb of Orchards where the motorway terminates at Fourth Plain Boulevard, and meets with the south end of north-south-oriented 117th Ave., SR 503.
A third state highway, SR 501, starts at I-5 and heads west through downtown and continues along a path that runs between the Columbia River and Vancouver Lake.
Route 501 SR501 dead ends a several miles north of Vancouver.
Token coins used in Vancouver amid the mid-20th century, including a state revenue tax token, private bus fare tokens and one used to pay toll on the Interstate Bridge.
In 1995, Clark County voters defeated a ballot measure that would have funded extension of Portland's MAX Light Rail fitness north into Vancouver. Opposition to paying for light rail was strong at that time, but slowly declined over the following a several years, eventually dominant Vancouver officials to begin discussing the idea again. Meanwhile, Tri - Met reconstituted its prepared MAX line to Vancouver as a shorter line running only inside Portland, which potentially could later be extended athwart the river and into Clark County.
This extension of the MAX fitness opened in 2004 as the Yellow Line, running as far north as the Portland Expo Center, roughly 1 mile (2 km) south of downtown Vancouver.
Vancouver voters have rejected light rail operations monies in connection with the Columbia River Crossing proposal. Vancouver has always been well served by rail; current freight barns s operating in Vancouver include the BNSF, Union Pacific, and the small-town shortline Lewis and Clark Railway.
Amtrak, the nationwide traveler rail system, provides service to Vancouver Station.
Pearson Field, positioned near downtown Vancouver, is the chief airport serving the city.
In 2008, Vancouver passed a citywide law requiring anyone on a wheeled device such as a bicycle, skateboard, scooter or skates to wear a helmet while on any sidewalk, street, trail or other enhance property.
Even with opposition from the public, the Vancouver City Council passed the measure 5-1 with then Mayor Royce Pollard saying, "tatistics be damned.
Vancouver has one sister city: Vancouver previously had a sister-city relationship with Arequipa, Peru, between 1961 and 1993, but that relationship ended. NASCAR driver Greg Biffle is a Vancouver native.
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