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Olympia is located in Thurston County [9] at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet, where the Deschutes River estuary enters the Sound. The river was dammed in 1951 to create Capitol Lake; in late 2022 the state government approved the dam's removal to restore the estuary at an unspecified date. [10]
Thurston County is a founding member of the Timberland system, which was established as a pilot project in 1964 and made into a permanent intercounty rural library district in 1968. The county had previously been served by the South Puget Sound Regional Library, which was contracted to operate libraries in the cities of Lacey, Olympia, and Yelm.
Location of Thurston County in Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Thurston County, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Thurston County, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Thurston County: 067: Olympia: 1852: Lewis County: Samuel Thurston (1815–1851), the Oregon Territory's first delegate to U.S. Congress [37] 299,003: 722 sq mi (1,870 km 2) Wahkiakum County: 069: Cathlamet: 1854: Cowlitz County: Wakaiakam, chief of the Kathlamet tribe [38] 4,765: 264 sq mi (684 km 2) Walla Walla County: 071: Walla Walla: 1854 ...
Tumwater is a city in Thurston County, Washington, United States. The population was 25,350 at the 2020 census. [4] The city is situated near where the Deschutes River enters Budd Inlet, the southernmost point of Puget Sound; it also borders the state capital of Olympia to the north. Tumwater is the oldest permanent Anglo-American settlement on ...
The county has sued to seize the man’s property to ensure it collects $100,000 that he still owes. Thurston County says pot-grow homeowner broke settlement. Now it wants his Lakewood home
The site in Thurston County that is still on the table would be able to accommodate significantly fewer passengers — about 8 million annually — and is roughly 10 miles east of Olympia Regional ...
In 1852, Olympia became the county seat of the newly organized Thurston County which at the time was still part of Oregon Territory. The first schoolhouse in Olympia was built in 1852, becoming the first public school north of what is now Toledo, Washington, [a] and predating Seattle's first school by almost 20 years [4]