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Orchards was originally known as Fourth Plain. Several theories exist as to the etymology of the name, but one account states that in 1846, Dugald McTavish, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, surveyed land near the fur trading post, Fort Vancouver. McTavish described four plains in the area of thick woods and officials at the trading post ...
April 7, 1998 (310 West 11th Street: Vancouver: 7: Clark County Courthouse: Clark County Courthouse: April 11, 2014 (1200 Franklin Street: Vancouver: 8: Clark County Poor Farm – Southwestern Washington Experiment Station
The annual Old Apple Tree Festival in Vancouver celebrated the tree's birthday in October with giveaways of cuttings by the city forester. [6] [7] The apple tree, which had been in ailing health for some time, died in June 2020 at the age of 194. [8] Although the tree's trunk was "declared dead", the root system remains alive.
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 .
State Route 503 (SR 503) is a 54.11-mile-long (87.08 km) state highway serving Clark and Cowlitz counties in the U.S. state of Washington.The highway travels north from a short concurrency with SR 500 in Orchards through Battle Ground, the eastern terminus of SR 502, and communities in rural Clark County before crossing the Lewis River on the Yale Bridge.
SR 500 near the St. Johns Boulevard interchange facing east. SR 500 begins northeast of downtown Vancouver as part of an interchange with I-5 and East 39th Street. The westbound lanes of SR 500 connect with an onramp to southbound I-5, while the eastbound lanes of SR 500 are fed by an offramp from northbound I-5; other movements to I-5 are accessed by a half-diamond interchange with Northeast ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 503,311, [1] making it Washington's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat and largest city is Vancouver. [2] It was the first county in Washington, first named Vancouver County in 1845 before being renamed for William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1849.
Burnt Bridge Creek is a 13-mile (21 km) stream flowing for most of its length within the city of Vancouver in the U.S. state of Washington. [3] It begins as drainage from field ditches near the unincorporated community of Orchards, east of the city. [3] The creek flows generally west to Vancouver Lake. [4]