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Grant County, Washington

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

11historic places

—earliest paper

1909formed

99,123pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 11 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Ephrata, Beverly, Hartline.

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 Grant titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

11 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bell Hotel	Ephrata	Building	1997
Beverly Railroad Bridge	Beverly	Structure	1982
Columbia Basin Project Irrigation Division Headquarters Office	Ephrata	Building	2019
Grant County Courthouse	Ephrata	Building	1975
Hartline School	Hartline	Building	2010
Lind Coulee Archaeological Site	Warden	Site	1974
Mesa 36	Soap Lake	Site	1978
Paris Archeological Site	Richland	Site	1978
Reiman, Samuel and Katherine, House	Quincy	Building	2008
Stratford School	Stratford	Building	1990
Wilson Creek State Bank	Wilson Creek	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

Grant was formed in 1909 (1909-02-24) from Douglas.

GRANT created from DOUGLAS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Grant County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
8,698	7,771	14,668	24,346	46,477	48,522	74,698	99,123

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

9 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Coulee City Cemetery	47.62647	-119.2746
Ephrata Cemetery	47.31814	-119.55885
Guarding Angels Cemetery	47.12496	-119.23476
Pioneer Memorial Cemetery	47.11534	-119.18279
Pleasant Valley Cemetery	46.92729	-119.45181
Saint Johns Cemetery	47.78622	-119.04052
Schultz Memorial Cemetery	47.21027	-119.001
Valley View Memorial Park	47.38612	-119.46981
Welsh Cemetery	47.71406	-119.04563

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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