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Ferry County, Washington

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

12historic places

—earliest paper

1899formed

7,178pop. 2020

2cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Curlew, Republic, Kettle Falls.

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 Ferry titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

10 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ansorge Hotel	Curlew	Building	1979
Barstow Bridge	Kettle Falls	Structure	1995
Columbia River Bridge at Kettle Falls	Kettle Falls	Structure	1995
Creaser Hotel	Republic	Building	1982
Curlew Bridge	Curlew	Structure	1982
Curlew School	Curlew	Building	1980
Fairweather-Trevitt House	Republic	Building	2000
Ferry County Courthouse	Republic	Building	2018
Slagle, Jesse W. & Elizabeth, House	Republic	Building	2011
St. Paul's Mission	Kettle Falls	Building	1974
U.S. Inspection Station-Ferry, Washington	Curlew	Building	2014
U.S. Inspection Station-Laurier, Washington	Laurier	Building	2014

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ferry was formed in 1899 (1899-02-21) from Stevens.

FERRY created from STEVENS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ferry County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,562	5,143	4,701	4,096	3,889	5,811	7,260	7,178

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	Park unit	32.4 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 2 of 2 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Eagle Cliff Cemetery	48.9405	-118.79452
Kewa Cemetery	48.18025	-118.2566

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Beulah	48.59212	-118.13777
Hazelmere	48.08461	-118.26166

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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