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Pend Oreille County, Washington

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

9historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

13,401pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 9 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Metaline Falls, Newport, Metaline.

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 Pend Oreille titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 9 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

9 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Boundary Hydroelectric Project	Metaline	District	2018
Idaho and Wash. Northern RR Bridge	Metaline Falls	Structure	1982
Larson, Lewis P., House	Metaline Falls	Building	1979
Metaline Falls School	Metaline Falls	Building	1988
Pend Oreille County Courthouse	Newport	Building	2013
Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Building	Metaline Falls	Building	1997
Phillips, Dr. John and Viola, House and Office	Newport	Building	2006
United States Border Station	Metaline Falls	Building	1997
Washington Hotel	Metaline Falls	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pend Oreille was formed in 1911 (1911-03-01) from Stevens.

PEND OREILLE created from STEVENS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Pend Oreille County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,363	7,156	7,413	6,914	8,580	11,732	13,401

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

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Harvey Grave	48.95547	-117.31534
Newport Cemetery	48.17466	-117.06909
Perkins Family Cemetery	48.84191	-117.3851
Riverside Cemetery	48.72069	-117.41267

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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