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Forks, also previously known as the unincorporated town of Quillayute, is a city in southwest Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 3,335 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is named after the forks in the nearby Bogachiel , Calawah , and Sol Duc rivers which join to form the Quillayute River .
The U.S. state of Washington has six telephone area codes. The state initially used a single area code until it was divided in 1957 with the creation of area code 509 to serve Eastern Washington. In 1995, 206 was split again to serve just the Puget Sound region after area code 360 was created for the remainder of Western Washington.
King County, home to the state's largest city, Seattle, holds almost 30 percent of Washington's population (2,271,380 residents of 7,812,880 in 2023), and has the highest population density, with more than 1,000 people per square mile (400/km 2). Garfield County is both the least populated (2,363) and least densely populated (3.3/sq mi [1.3/km 2]).
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Washington which are not incorporated municipalities.Incorporated municipalities in the state are listed separately in a list of cities and list of towns.
SR 110 was established in 1991 on the existing La Push Road from US 101 in Forks to Olympic National Park, [2] previously part of SSH 9B. SSH 9B and a spur route to Mora was designated in 1937 as part of the newly created Primary and secondary state highways , [ 5 ] but was removed in 1955.
Clallam Bay was founded in the 1880s as a steamboat stop. It became a mill town in 1890. Two years later, the mill burned, and making barrels for West Clallam Bay's tanning extract became its main industry.
Beaver is located on U.S. Route 101 to the north of Forks, Washington. It is situated just to the west of the boundary of the Olympic National Forest , on Lake Pleasant . Beaver is 413 feet (126 m) above sea level.
It has three main forks, the East Fork, West Fork, and Middle Fork Dickey Rivers. The main stem is formed by the confluence of the East and West Forks. The river and its forks rise in the northwestern part of the Olympic Peninsula and flow generally south and west to join the Quillayute River near its mouth on the Pacific Ocean. [2]