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Part of the Grand Coulee has been dammed and filled with water as part of the Columbia Basin Project. Grand Coulee is an ancient river bed in the U.S. state of Washington. This National Natural Landmark [1] stretches for about 60 miles (100 km) southwest from Grand Coulee Dam to Soap Lake, being bisected by Dry Falls into the Upper and Lower ...
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Coulee City was commonly known as McEntee’s Crossing of the Grand Coulee in the 19th century. In 1881, Philip McEntee, after helping a group of surveyors trying to lay down a road, built the first log cabin around Coulee City. Other important pioneers soon followed in the following years. [4] The town was named after nearby Grand Coulee. [5]
Aerial view from the south with Grand Coulee located centrally, Electric City to the left and Coulee Dam to the right. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.29 square miles (3.34 km 2), of which, 1.19 square miles (3.08 km 2) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km 2) is water.
Harvey Slocum (October 23, 1887 – November 11, 1961) was an American civil engineer and dam-building expert, known primarily for his part in the construction of Grand Coulee Dam in the United States and the Bhakra Dam in India. [1]
John Joseph Billion (March 4, 1939 – February 25, 2023) was an American politician and physician who was the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for Governor of South Dakota and served as a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from the 13th district from 1993 to 1997.
Moses Coulee and Lenore Canyon, lower Grand Coulee, have hanging valleys, where pre-flood tributaries enter the coulees at least 100 m (330 ft) above the coulee floor. [3] The furrowed moraines channeling rain runoff in the area east of the Missouri Coteau in the western United States and western Canada at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Grand Coulee had a population of 606 living in 202 of its 209 total private dwellings, a change of -6.6% from its 2016 population of 649. With a land area of 1.74 km 2 (0.67 sq mi), it had a population density of 348.3/km 2 (902.0/sq mi) in 2021. [10]