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Rainier (/ r eɪ ˈ n ɪər / ray-NEER) is a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States. Beginning as a train stop in the 1870s, Rainier was first settled in 1890 and would become known as a logging town.
Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in Washington and the Cascade Range. This peak is located southeast of Tacoma, approximately 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Seattle. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Mount Rainier has a topographic prominence of 13,210 ft (4,026 m). [ 2 ]
A map of PSH 5 and its branches. After US 12 was extended through Washington in 1967, SR 410 used the Sumner–Buckley branch as well as the main highway to Naches for its route. In 1923, the state highway system was restructured completely, incorporating numbers instead of names.
The highest peak in the range is Mount Rainier in Washington at 14,411 feet (4,392 m). The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean. All of the eruptions in the contiguous United States over the last 200 years have been from the Cascade Volcanoes.
The Puget Sound faults under the heavily populated Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland) of Washington state form a regional complex of interrelated seismogenic (earthquake-causing) geologic faults. These include (from north to south, see map) the: Devils Mountain Fault; Strawberry Point and Utsalady Point faults; Southern Whidbey Island Fault (SWIF)
Mount Rainier National Park is a national park of the United States located in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state. [3] The park was established on March 2, 1899, as the fourth national park in the United States, preserving 236,381 acres (369.3 sq mi; 956.6 km 2) [1] including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,410-foot (4,390 m) stratovolcano.
Thousands of Washington residents are left in the dark after a wintry mix of precipitation entered the state on Tuesday. As of 8:48 a.m. PT Wednesday, the Evergreen State had over 88,000 reported ...
The Columbia City Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in the Columbia City neighborhood in the Rainier Valley area of Seattle, Washington. It is roughly bounded by South Hudson Street, South Alaska Street, 35th Avenue and Rainier Avenue.