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Yakima (/ ˈ j æ k ɪ m ɑː / or / ˈ j æ k ɪ m ə /) is a city in, and the county seat of, Yakima County, Washington, United States, and the state's 11th most populous city.As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. [4]
Yakima County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, its population was 256,728. [1] The county seat and most populous city is Yakima. [2] The county was formed out of Ferguson County in January 1865 and is named for the Yakama tribe of Native Americans.
The first post office in Yakima opened in 1885. By 1910, federal officials selected a location for a new post office and courthouse building in the town. Designed by Supervising Architect of the Treasury James Knox Taylor, the building is Yakima's premier example of Second Renaissance Revival style architecture. To celebrate the grand building ...
The Tri-Cities is part of the Yakima television market which, as of the 2017 Nielsen DMA Rankings, was recorded as having 230,950 TV households. [ 97 ] [ 98 ] Stations and networks which serve this market include KFFX-TV (a Fox affiliate), KVVK (a Univision affiliate), KEPR (a CBS affiliate), KNDU ( NBC ), KTNW ( PBS ), and KVEW ( ABC ). [ 98 ]
Northwest Airlines was serving the airport in 1939 with a daily roundtrip Portland, OR - Yakima - Spokane flight operated with a Douglas DC-3. [7] [8] By the early and mid 1960s, Northwest was operating daily, no change of plane Lockheed L-188 Electra propjet service from Yakima to the U.S. east coast via a number of intermediate stops as well as nonstop Electra service to Seattle/Tacoma ...
Goose Prairie is an unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington, United States.Goose Prairie is 41 miles (66 km) northwest of Yakima.It was founded by Tom Fife in 1886 who named it after a goose that visited the meadow one evening and stayed the night.
Yakima was a train station in Yakima, Washington, last served by served Amtrak trains in 1981. Built originally as part of the Northern Pacific Railway 's transcontinental mainline, three stations existed on the same site since 1884.
Terrace Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 9,244 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is essentially a suburb of the city of Yakima .