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509. FIPS code. 53-50325 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1507134 [3] Website. Town of Oakesdale. Oakesdale is a town in Whitman County, Washington, United States. The population was 395 at the 2020 census.
The Hanford Reach National Monument is a national monument in the U.S. state of Washington. It was created in 2000, mostly from the former security buffer surrounding the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The area has been untouched by development or agriculture since 1943. For this reason, it is considered an involuntary park.
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
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79002530 [1] Added to NRHP. March 26, 1979. The Ansorge Hotel is a turn of the 20th-century two-story hotel located in Curlew, Washington. It was built in 1907 next to the Great Northern Railway and Republic and Kettle Valley Railway lines. Several patrons of historical note are thought to have accommodated at the hotel, including Henry Ford.
The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [ 1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [ 2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [ 3] and 36 of those are found in Whitman County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings ...
At Hanford up to 14,000 acres have been proposed for a clean energy park. However, the Tri-City Development Council asked that some land be reserved for its vision of an advanced clean energy park ...
B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, just weeks after the Trinity Test. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.