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Omak (/ oʊ ˈ m æ k / o-MAK [3]) is a city located in the foothills of the Okanogan Highlands in north-central Washington, United States.With a population of 4,860 residents as of 2020, distributed over a land area of 3.43 square miles (8.9 km 2), Omak is the largest municipality of Okanogan County and the largest municipality in Central Washington north of Wenatchee.
Licensed to Omak, Washington, United States, the station is currently owned by North Cascades Broadcasting, Inc. and features programming from Premiere Networks. [3]
Okanogan County (/ ˌ oʊ k ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən /) [1] is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,104. [2] The county seat is Okanogan, [3] while the most populous city is Omak. Its area is the largest in the state. [4]
KOMW (680 AM, "Radio Okanogan 680") is a radio station broadcasting an adult standards music format. [2] Licensed to Omak, Washington, United States, the station is currently owned by North Cascades Broadcasting, Inc. and features programming from Salem Radio Network. [3]
North Omak is a census-designated place (CDP) in Okanogan County, Washington, United States, north of Omak, Washington. The community is considered to be part of Greater Omak , [ 3 ] and had a population of 651 at the 2020 census .
The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle is a newspaper serving North-Central Washington's Okanogan County. The weekly newspaper also covers Ferry County and parts of Douglas County. The newspaper's primary readership is on the U.S. Route 97 corridor stretching from Pateros, Wash., north to the U.S.–Canada border.
The suicide race was created in 1935 by Claire Pentz, the publicity director of the Omak rodeo, in an effort to promote the rodeo. [2] The race is rooted in nineteenth century Native American endurance races, which were held in on the Colville Indian Reservation in a valley near Keller, which was flooded after construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s.
The United States Army Air Forces built the airport around 1942, when it was known as the Okanogan Flight Strip and Omak Flight Strip. [4] The initial construction, which was completed in 1943, [5] consisted of a 4,654-foot (1,419 m) long, 150-foot (46 m) wide paved runway running north and south, with graded sides and overrun areas which were 175 feet (53 m) wide. [6]