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Newport is located at an elevation of 2,160 feet (658.5 m) [1] and according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.07 square miles (2.77 km 2), all of it land. [15] The town of Oldtown, Idaho, is just to the east of Newport, and on the Pend Oreille River. There are no natural or physical barriers between the two ...
State Route 20 (SR 20), also known as the North Cascades Highway, is a state highway that traverses the U.S. state of Washington.It is the state's longest highway, traveling 436 miles (702 km) across the northern areas of Washington, from U.S. Route 101 (US 101) at Discovery Bay on the Olympic Peninsula to US 2 near the Idaho state border in Newport.
Pend Oreille County (/ ˌ p ɒ n d ə ˈ r eɪ / POND-ə-RAY) is a county located in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Washington, along the Canada–US border.As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,401. [1]
The roadway serves as a bypass of Newport. The route originally was established as Secondary State Highway 6B (SSH 6B) in 1937. SSH 6B was later renumbered to SR 311 in 1964 during the highway renumbering. After SR 20 was extended east over SR 31, the highway was renumbered to SR 211.
A section of Washington State Route 31 in Colville National Forest. State Route 31 (SR 31) is a Washington state highway located entirely in Pend Oreille County.The highway, which is 26.79 miles (43.11 km) long, starts at an intersection with SR 20 in Tiger and travels north to the Canada–US border north of Metaline Falls.
State Highway 41 (SH-41) is a state highway mostly in the U.S. state of Idaho.It runs from Interstate 90 in Post Falls to U.S. Route 2 on the Washington state line. The northernmost 0.41 miles (0.66 km) of SH-41 run along State Street along the state line, with the southbound lane in the town of Newport, Washington, and the northbound lane in Oldtown, Idaho.
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The MILW entered financial difficulty in the 1970s and the Newport - Metaline Falls section was sold to Port of Pend Oreille following the company's downsizing. The Port of Pend Oreille established the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad and contracted railroad holding company Kyle Railways to manage the POVA. Freight service began on October 1, 1979 ...