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Douglas County, Washington

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
51historic places
—earliest paper
1883formed
42,938pop. 2020
18cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 51 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Palisades, Waterville, East Wenatchee.

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 Douglas titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 51 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

51 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
45DO1236PalisadesSite2021
45DO1237PalisadesSite2021
45DO1238PalisadesSite2023
45DO1239PalisadesSite2021
45DO1240PalisadesSite2021
45DO1241PalisadesSite2021
45DO1242PalisadesSite2021
45DO1412PalisadesSite2025
45DO1413PalisadesSite2025
45DO1414PalisadesSite2025
45DO1415PalisadesSite2025
45DO1416PalisadesSite2025
45DO1417PalisadesSite2025
45DO1418PalisadesSite2025
45DO1419PalisadesSite2025
45DO1421PalisadessSite2025
45DO1422WashingtonSite2025
45DO1423PalisadesSite2025
45DO1424PalisadesSite2025
45DO1425PalisadesSite2025
45DO1426PalisadesSite2025
45DO1427PalisadesSite2025
45DO1428PalisadesSite2025
45DO1429PalisadesSite2025
45DO1430PalisadesSite2025
45DO1431PalisadesSite2025
45DO1432PalisadesSite2025
45DO1433PalisadesSite2025
45DO1434PalisadesSite2026
45DO1435PalisadesSite2026
45DO1436PalisadesSite2026
45DO1437PalisadesSite2026
45DO1438PalisadesSite2026
45DO1439PalisadesSite2026
45DO1440PalisadesSite2026
Badger Mountain LookoutEast WenatcheeBuilding1990
Canton, William J., HouseWatervilleBuilding1988
Columbia River Bridge at BridgeportBridgeportStructure1995
Douglas County CourthouseWatervilleBuilding1975
Downtown Waterville Historic DistrictWatervilleDistrict1988
Gallaher HouseMansfieldBuilding1995
Lutheran St. Paul's KircheDouglasBuilding1982
Nifty TheatreWatervilleBuilding1999
Pangborn-Herndon Memorial SiteEast WenatcheeSite1972
Schmidt, Christian, HouseWatervilleBuilding1994
Smith Hospital and Douglas County Press BuildingWatervilleBuilding1989
Southern Columbia Plateau and Okanogan Highlands Site No. 45DO1235PalisadesSite2021
Southern Columbia Plateau and Okanogan Highlands Site No. 45DO1243PalisadesSite2022
Southern Columbia Plateau and Okanogan Highlands Site No. 45DO1244PalisadesSite2022
Southern Columbia Plateau and Okanogan Highlands Site No. 45DO1245PalisadesSite2022
Waterville HotelWatervilleBuilding1984

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Douglas was formed in 1883 (1883-11-28) from Lincoln.

DOUGLAS created by Washington Territory from LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

43k23k3,16118901920196020002020
189019001920194019501960198020002020
3,1614,9269,3928,65110,81714,89022,14432,60342,938

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

18 cemeteries and 7 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 18 of 18 listed
NameLatLon
Badger Mountain Cemetery47.50643-120.19478
Badger Mountain View Cemetery47.60897-120.04781
Brays Landing Cemetery (historical)47.73599-120.16991
Buckingham Cemetery47.86621-119.6297
Danish Cemetery47.68539-119.43776
Douglas Lutheran Cemetery47.61884-119.96338
Evangelical Emanuel Cemetery47.57623-119.81311
Evergreen Memorial Park47.42163-120.26624
Farmer Happy Home Cemetery47.62692-119.81387
Fletcher Cemetery47.74299-119.94307
Hamilton Cemetery47.43333-120.24991
Highland Cemetery47.61197-119.50613
Jameson Cemetery47.68571-119.66393
Mold Cemetery47.74318-119.31849
Orondo Community Cemetery47.64851-120.21474
Saint Andrews Cemetery47.67847-119.41559
Slack Cemetery47.52788-119.91935
Valley View Cemetery47.47314-120.29919
Historical populated places — 7 of 7
NameLatLon
Baird47.62014-119.46976
Jameson47.71375-119.66394
Matthiesen47.76792-119.66366
McLeans Orchard47.76347-120.07063
Okanogan City47.64152-119.99617
Patterson47.49124-120.30257
Saint Hubert47.59875-119.74838

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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