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The Palouse River's drainage basin is 3,303 square miles (8,550 km 2) in area. [2] Its mean annual discharge, as measured by USGS gage 13351000 at Hooper (river mile 19.6), is 599 cubic feet per second (17 m 3 /s), with a maximum daily recorded flow of 27,800 cu ft/s (787 m 3 /s), and a minimum of zero flow.
The Marmes Rockshelter (also known as (45-FR-50)) is an archaeological site first excavated in 1962, [3] near Lyons Ferry Park and the confluence of the Snake and Palouse Rivers, in Franklin County, southeastern Washington.
Spans Palouse River: Colfax: Open top covered bridge converted from a railway bridge. Also known as the Harpole Bridge. Historic Bridges and Tunnels in Washington TR; Destroyed by range fire September 7–8, 2020. 16: Masonic Hall: Masonic Hall
The canyon at the falls is 377 feet (115 m) deep, exposing a large cross-section of the Columbia River Basalt Group.These falls and the canyon downstream are an important feature of the channeled scablands created by the great Missoula floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and across the Columbia River Plateau during the Pleistocene epoch.
The community of Palouse, Washington, is located in Whitman County, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Potlatch, Idaho. Nevertheless, the traditional definition of the Palouse region is distinct from the older Walla Walla region south of the Snake River, where dryland farming of wheat was first proved viable in the region in the 1860s. During the ...
Hooper is located along the southern bank of the Palouse River, which serves as the boundary between Whitman County and Adams County. An old route of Washington State Route 26 crosses the river at Hooper, though the current alignment of the route is north of the river about a mile from Hooper.
The new town was called Palouse Junction by Jacob Cornelius Connell, a railroad official and resident. Palouse Junction was unique on the Ainsworth—Spokane line, in that it was not on a river. It was also the gateway to the Palouse via the OR&N's line to Washtucna. Water for trains and for the town was from public wells dug by the railroad.
Rock Creek is a tributary of the Palouse River in the U.S. state of Washington.The source of the creek is Pine Lakes in the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge (TNWR). The creek flows through the TNWR and ultimately joins the Palouse River 6 miles (10 km) downstream from the unincorporated town of Winona, Washington.