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Walla Walla County, Washington

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—newspaper titles

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32historic places

—earliest paper

1854formed

62,584pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 32 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966. Most listings are in or near Walla Walla, Waitsburg, Dixie.

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 Walla Walla titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

25 of 32 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

32 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bachtold Building-Interurban Depot	Walla Walla	Building	2019
Baumeister, Max, Building	Walla Walla	Building	2000
Boyer, John F., House	Walla Walla	Building	1980
Bruce, William Perry, House	Waitsburg	Building	1975
Butler, Norman Francis, House	Walla Walla	Building	1992
Dacres Hotel	Walla Walla	Building	1974
Dixie High School	Dixie	Building	1981
Electric Light Works Building	Walla Walla	Building	2012
Fort Walla Walla Historic District	Walla Walla	District	1974
Green Park School	Walla Walla	Building	1990
Johnson Bridge	Lowden	Structure	1982
Kirkman House	Walla Walla	Building	1974
Liberty Theater	Walla Walla	Building	1993
Ludwigs, George, House	Walla Walla	Building	1982
Marcus Whitman Hotel	Walla Walla	Building	1999
Memorial Building, Whitman College	Walla Walla	Building	1974
Moore, Miles C., House	Walla Walla	Building	1989
Northern Pacific Railway Passenger Depot	Walla Walla	Building	1990
Osterman House	Walla Walla	Building	1983
Preston Hall	Waitsburg	Building	1993
Saturno-Breen Truck Garden	College Place	Building	1982
Small-Elliott House	Walla Walla	Building	1982
US Post Office-Walla Walla Main	Walla Walla	Building	1991
Waitsburg High School	Waitsburg	Building	2001
Waitsburg Historic District	Waitsburg	District	1978
Walla Walla Downtown Historic District	Walla Walla	District	2021
Walla Walla Public Library	Walla Walla	Building	1974
Walla Walla Valley Traction Company Car Barn	Walla Walla	Building	1989
Washington School	Walla Walla	Building	1991
Whitehouse-Crawford Planing Mill	Walla Walla	Building	2000
Whitman Mission National Historic Site	Walla Walla	Site	1966
YMCA Building-Walla Walla	Walla Walla	Building	2015

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Walla Walla was formed in 1854 (1854-04-25) from Skamania.

WALLA WALLA created by Washington Territory from SKAMANIA and Non-County Area 1; included parts of present Idaho and Montana. WALLA WALLA overlapped the eastern end of WHATCOM.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,318	8,716	18,680	27,539	30,547	40,135	42,195	47,435	55,180	62,584

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.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site	Park unit	23.8 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Blue Mountain Memorial Gardens	46.04726	-118.36981
Fort Walla Walla Military Cemetery	46.04763	-118.36356
Great Grave	46.04205	-118.46253
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery	46.26693	-118.14683
Ivy Cemetery	46.30486	-118.33023
Mount Hope Cemetery	46.04374	-118.39829
Mountain View Cemetery	46.0443	-118.32773
Valley Chapel Cemetery	46.02053	-118.4413

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Waiilatpo	46.04097	-118.46219

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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