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Skamania County, Washington

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

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1854formed

12,036pop. 2020

1cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1987. Most listings are in or near Mt. Adams Ranger Dist., Gifford Pinchot NF, Cougar, North Bonneville.

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 Skamania titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Government Mineral Springs Guard Station	Mt. Adams Ranger Dist., Gifford Pinchot NF	Building	2017
Lawetlat'la	Cougar	Site	2013
North Bonneville Archeological District	North Bonneville	District	1987
Region Six Personnel Training Station	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	Building	2007
Underwood, Edward and Isabelle, Farm-Five Oaks Farm	Underwood	Building	2008

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Skamania was formed in 1854 (1854-03-09) from Clarke, Lewis.

SKAMANIA created by Washington Territory from CLARKE, LEWIS, and Non-County Area 1; included parts of present Idaho and Montana.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Skamania County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
173	809	1,688	2,357	4,633	4,788	5,207	7,919	9,872	12,036

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

1 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Iman Cemetery	45.699	-121.89929

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Harmony Falls Landing	46.26567	-122.14287

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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