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Wapato (/ ˈ w ɑː p ʌ t oʊ /) is a town in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 4,607 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It has a Hispanic majority.
Wapato Lake near Gaston. Wapato Lake Unit is located about 15 miles (24 km) to the west of the main refuge, near the city of Gaston along Oregon Route 47 in Washington and Yamhill counties. [16] [37] The area was once the site of Wapato Lake, whose soil held an organic-rich peat that sustained a shrub swamp ecosystem.
Wapato, a United States Navy tug in service from 1966 to 1996; Sauvie Island, which was originally called Wapato Island; Wapato Lake, a restored lake in what's now Washington and Yamhill counties; Wapato Corrections Facility, a built but never opened jail in Multnomah County.
As part of the U.S. Highway system laid out in 1925 and finalized in late 1926, US 410 connected Aberdeen with Clarkston, following the Olympic Highway (State Road 9) to Olympia, the Pacific Highway (State Road 1)—concurrent with US 99—to Tacoma, the National Park Highway System (State Road 5) to Yakima, and the Inland Empire Highway (State ...
The 3,700-acre (15 km 2) park includes camping, beach access, swimming at Coffenbury Lake, trails, and a military history museum. [6] As of 2019, it was the eighth busiest park in the state's park system with 1,197,738 visitors that year.
Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805–1806. Located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Astoria, the fort was the last encampment of the Corps of Discovery, before embarking on their return trip east to ...
Wapato Bridge connects the island to the rest of Oregon. Prior to European arrival in the 19th century, Sauvie Island was the ancestral home to the Multnomah band of the Chinook Tribe. There were approximately 15 villages on the island, hosting a total of 2,000 people who built and resided in cedar plank-houses 30 yards (27 m) long by 12 yards ...
Another on Wapato Point was home to about 100 people. Many groups lived from Field's Point to the First Creek drain into the lake (now a WA State Park), the Watson's Resort, Granite Falls, Sunnybank drainage, Minneapolis Beach, Laferties Landing or Resort, and the area referred to as Lakeside.