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Wahkiakum County, Washington

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

6historic places

—earliest paper

1854formed

4,422pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Cathlamet, Altoona, Deep River.

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 Wahkiakum titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Columbia River Gillnet Boat	Altoona	Structure	1978
Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church	Deep River	Building	1974
Grays River Covered Bridge	Grays River	Structure	1971
Hansen, Julia Butler, House	Cathlamet	Building	2024
Pioneer Church	Cathlamet	Building	1973
Skamokawa Historic District	Skamokawa	District	1976

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wahkiakum was formed in 1854 (1854-04-25) from Cowlitz.

WAHKIAKUM created by Washington Territory from COWLITZ.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
42	1,598	2,819	3,472	4,286	3,835	3,426	3,832	3,824	4,422

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.
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park	Park unit	44.3 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Fern Hill Cemetery	46.28899	-123.45651
Grasseth Cemetery	46.18233	-123.21539
Greenwood Cemetery	46.21302	-123.38085
Pioneer Cemetery	46.20262	-123.38099
Rosburg Cemetery	46.33476	-123.64001

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Brookfield	46.26483	-123.56069

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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