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Asotin County, Washington

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

22,285pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Clarkston, Asotin, Cloverland.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Washington is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Asotin titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Clarkston Public Library	Clarkston	Building	1982
Cloverland Garage	Cloverland	Building	1986
Full Gospel Church	Asotin	Building	1972
Grande Ronde River Bridge	Asotin	Structure	1995
Indian Timothy Memorial Bridge	Pomeroy	Structure	1982
Snake River Archeological District	Asotin	District	1976
US Post Office-Clarkston Main	Clarkston	Building	1991
Van Arsdol, C. C., House	Clarkston	Building	1975

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Asotin was formed in 1883 (1883-10-27) from Garfield.

ASOTIN created by Washington Territory from GARFIELD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Asotin County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,580	3,366	6,539	8,365	10,878	12,909	16,823	20,551	22,285

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Asotin Cemetery	46.32914	-117.05519
Autrey Cemetery	46.05151	-117.33783
Cloverland Cemetery	46.24737	-117.23015
Craige Cemetery	46.11821	-117.02347
Lake Cemetery	46.21626	-117.24015
Mountain View Cemetery	46.03432	-117.35612
Theon Cemetery	46.16654	-117.10181
Vineland Cemetery	46.40987	-117.08285

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Theon	46.1546	-117.09599
Zindel	46.11571	-116.99876

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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