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Carrington College is a network of for-profit private colleges with its headquarters in Sacramento, California, and 17 locations throughout the Western United States. Established in 1967, it has a student enrollment of over 5,200 and 132,000 alumni.
Lower Columbia College, Longview; Moody Aviation, Spokane; North Seattle College, Seattle [8] Olympic College, Bremerton [9] Pierce College, Lakewood; Seattle Central College, Seattle [10] Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon; South Seattle College, Seattle [11] Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane; Tacoma Community College, Tacoma
Further splits in 1995 to create area code 360 for most of Western Washington, and 1997 to form area codes 253 and 425. 564 will be added to the 206 area in 2025. 509: January 1, 1957 [1] Eastern Washington, including Spokane, the Tri-Cities, Yakima, Walla Walla, and Wenatchee: Created in a split from area code 206. [2] 360: January 15, 1995 [3]
The population was 102,976 at the 2020 census, [5] making it the ninth-most populous city in Washington state. Spokane Valley is named after the valley of the Spokane River, in which it is located. The city and the general area is colloquially referred to as "The Valley" by residents of the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene area.
As of 2023, the largest of these is the Seattle-Tacoma, WA CSA, anchored by Washington's largest city, Seattle and including its capital, Olympia. The state historically had three metropolitan areas: Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma. Seattle and Tacoma were eventually merged, while other metropolitan areas were added in the 1970s and 1980s. [2]
The Great Northern, Milwaukee Road and Great Northern railroads passed through the area until the 1970s, when most of the railroads in the city center were torn out ahead of Expo 74. [4] Higher education came to the area in the early 1990s, after a mandate from the state that Washington State University establish a branch campus in Spokane.
The Spokane–Spokane Valley Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of Spokane and Stevens counties in Washington state, anchored by the city of Spokane and its largest suburb, Spokane Valley. [2] As of July 1, 2021, the MSA had an estimated population of 593,466. [3]
Spokane (/ s p oʊ ˈ k æ n / ⓘ spoh-KAN) [8] is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States.It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canadian border, 18.5 miles (30 km) west of the Washington–Idaho border, and 279 miles (449 ...