Kalama (Washington)
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| Foundation : | November 29, 1871 ( incorporated , i.e. recognized as a local authority ) | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Washington | ||
| County : | Cowlitz | ||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 1 ′ N , 122 ° 51 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
2,398 (as of 2015) Longview |
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| Population density : | 685.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 3.5 km 2 (approx. Err mi 2 ) of which 3.5 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 12 m | ||
| Postal code : | 98625 | ||
| Area code : | +1 360 | ||
| FIPS : | 53-34645 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 2410160 | ||
| Website : | City of Kalama | ||
 Location of Kalama in Cowlitz County |
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Kalama is a city ( City ) in Cowlitz County in the State of Washington . It is part of the Longview - Metropolitan Statistical Area . According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management , Kalama had 2,500 residents in 2015.
History
Surname
After the Washington State Place Names of James W. Phillips, General John W. Sprague of the Northern Pacific Railroad named the city in 1871 after the Indian word calama , which means "beautiful girl". There is another story, however: Gabriel Franchere wrote in 1811 about an Indian village at the mouth of the Kalama River and added that it was called "Thlakalamah" (which was an earlier description than any other).
Settlement and early years
Kalama was first settled by Indians , more precisely members of the Cowlitz tribe . The arrival of the first white settlers is dated to 1853. It was Ezra Meeker and his family. Just a year later, Meeker went north to Puyallup , but sold his Donation Land Claim (a piece of land that had been assigned to settlers by the United States under federal law of the same name) to a Mr. Davenport, who along with a few others was permanently in the Kalama- Area settled. In early 1870, explorers of the Northern Pacific Railway reached Cowlitz County to find a perfect ending point for a railway line on the Columbia River. After unsuccessful negotiations on a donation land claim in Martin's Bluff , four miles south of Kalama, Northern Pacific officials acquired 700 acres for a railway terminus and new headquarters. The population swelled from the employees of the Northern Pacific Railway .
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Kalama was practically a factory settlement of the Northern Pacific . It was unofficially established in May 1870 when the Northern Pacific Railroad broke ground. The Northern Pacific built a repair base, a sawmill, a repair shop, an engine shed, a turntable, hotels, a hospital, shops and apartment buildings. Within a few months, the working population exploded to around 3,500 people in 1870 and the city set up tents, saloons, a brewery and an amusement arcade. Soon the city had created the motto “Rail Meets Sail” (German for “rail meets ship”). Employment agencies went to San Francisco to recruit Chinese people to move to their own Chinatown in a suburb of Kalama now known as China Gardens . The population of Kalama peaked at 5,000, but in early 1874 the rail company moved its headquarters to Tacoma, and by 1877 only 700 people were left in Kalama.
Kalama was unofficially recognized on November 29, 1871. It served as the county seat of Cowlitz County from 1872 to 1922 . Kalama was the northern terminus of a rail ferry operated by the Northern Pacific Railway from Goble, Oregon . This was a crucial link between 1883 and 1909 until the Portland railroad bridges were completed. Kalama arose from Gen. John W. Sprague of the Northern Pacific Railway , who in March 1870 selected a point at the mouth of the Kalama River to mark the start of the Pacific Division of the Northern Pacific . From this stake, the Northern Pacific began its expansion northwards to Puget Sound , eventually reaching Commencement Bay on what is now Tacoma before going bankrupt. Construction began in April 1871 with a force of 800 men, of whom the “first nail” was hammered in in May 1871. Scheduled traffic from Tacoma to Kalama began on January 5, 1874. The Portland Hunters Line was completed in the fall of 1883, around the same time as the ceremonial “last nail” west of Helena, Montana , to complete the to mark transcontinental connection of the Northern Pacific Railroad . The following year, in October 1884, a three-track, 120-meter-long railway ferry was established, marking the start of 25 years of ferry service across the Columbia River . Hunters was near the south end of Sandy Island , about a mile south of Goble. However, travel times across the stream were exorbitant when the Tacoma had to fight the tide and the ferry station was soon relocated to Goble on the north end of Sandy Island , directly across from Kalama. The ferry could transport 12 passenger wagons or 27 freight wagons.
Historic Buildings
St. Joseph's Catholic Church was built in 1874, around the same time the Kalama to Tacoma railroad was first opened. It was the first and only Catholic church in Kalama.
geography
According to Cowlitz County's GIS data, the recognized city of Kalama occupies 9.06 km².
A connection to highways is via exits 27, 30 and 32 from Interstate 5 (I-5). The industrial area is along the river, while the business district is on the east side of I-5. There are residential areas to the east on the hill and the escarpment above town, some of which have great views over the Columbia River. The lively Portland-Seattle rail link runs two or more tracks parallel to I-5 in the west through the entire city.
climate
The climatic region in which Kalama is located is characterized by warm (but not hot) and dry summers, the monthly average temperatures of which do not exceed 22 ° C. According to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification , it is a warm summer Mediterranean climate ("Csb" for short).
Demographics
| Population development | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1880 | 129 | - | |
| 1890 | 325 | 151.9% | |
| 1900 | 554 | 70.5% | |
| 1910 | 816 | 47.3% | |
| 1920 | 1228 | 50.5% | |
| 1930 | 940 | -23.5% | |
| 1940 | 1028 | 9.4% | |
| 1950 | 1121 | 9% | |
| 1960 | 1088 | -2.9% | |
| 1970 | 1106 | 1.7% | |
| 1980 | 1216 | 9.9% | |
| 1990 | 1210 | -0.5% | |
| 2000 | 1783 | 47.4% | |
| 2010 | 2344 | 31.5% | |
| 2016 estimate | 2484 | 6% | |
| US Decennial Census 2015 Estimate |
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2010 Census
As of the 2010 census , Kalama had 2,344 residents, 967 households, and 665 families. The population density was 326.7 per km ². There were 1,070 housing units at an average density of 149.2 per km².
The population was 91.3% white , 0.6% African American , 1.3% Indian , 1.2% Asian , 0.1% Pacific islander , 1.8% from other "races" and 3.7% from two or more "races" . Hispanics or Latinos of "any race" made up 4.9% of the population.
Of the 967 households, 31.6% were cared for by children under the age of 18, 52% by married couples living together , 11.5% by single mothers and 5.3% by single fathers; 31.2% were non-families. 25.4% of the households were singles and 10.6% were single people over 65 years of age. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.88 people.
The median age in the city was 41.5 years. 23.5% of the population were under 18, 6.3% between 18 and 24, 24% between 25 and 44, 29.5% between 45 and 64 and 16.6 65 years or older. 48.8% of the population were men and 51.2% women.
Montgomery House Bed and Breakfast
The Montgomery House Bed and Breakfast is a house built in 1908 on the old Cowlitz land. In a 2009 documentary ( Montgomery House: The Perfect Haunting by Danielle Egnew) it was the title hero . There has been no bed and breakfast in the house since 2013 , it has been remodeled.
Trivia
Kalama is home to the world's longest totem pole, made from a single trunk; the stake stands in the middle of a park on the Columbia River , is 140 ft (42.6 m) long and was made by Chief Lelooska.
According to a sign posted on the Columbia Inn in Kalama, Elvis Presley and Jack Benny stayed at the Columbia Inn Hotel in 1962 .
Individual scenes from the Twilight series were filmed in the Kalama HS parking lot.
Jackson Gillis , a television film writer, was born in Kalama.
Anna Kashfi (nee Joan O'Callaghan) Brando Hannaford, Marlon Brando's first wife , was a resident of Kalama for a long time until her death. Kashfi and her son Christian Brando are buried in Kalama.
The craft brewery Pyramid Breweries was founded in Kalama in 1984.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Population Estimates . United States Census Bureau . Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
- ↑ US Gazetteer files 2010 . United States Census Bureau . Archived from the original on January 24, 2012. Retrieved on December 19, 2012.
- ↑ April 1, 2015 Population of Cities, Towns and Counties . Office of Financial Management. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ James W. Phillips, Washington State Place Names, (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1971), 69
- ^ Virginia Urrutia, They Came to Six Rivers: The Story of Cowlitz County (Kelso, WA: Cowlitz County Historical Society, 1998), 93
- ↑ a b http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9736
- ^ Virginia Urrutia, They Came to Six Rivers: The Story of Cowlitz County (Kelso, WA: Cowlitz County Historical Society, 1998), pg. 93
- ↑ http://www.brian894x4.com/LewisandClarkExplorer.html | Active Short Lines in the Pacific Northwest
- ↑ a b c d e Kurt Armbruster: Orphan Railroad: The railroad comes to Seattle, 1953-1911 . Washington State University Press, Pullman, Washington 1999, ISBN 0-87422-186-2 , pp. 27, 29, 44, 99.
- ^ Lewis A. McArthur, Lewis L. McArthur [1928]: Oregon Geographic Names , 6th Edition, Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, Oregon 1992, ISBN 0-87595-277-1 , p. 431.
- ^ Climate Summary for Kalama, Washington
- ^ Population and Housing Unit Estimates . Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- ↑ United States Census Bureau : Census of Population and Housing . Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
- ↑ American FactFinder . United States Census Bureau . Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ↑ Anna Kashfi, Actress Who Was Brando's First Wife, Dies at 80 . Retrieved August 25, 2015.
- ↑ Christian Brando laid to rest in Kalama . The Longview Daily News. February 19, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
- ↑ Marlon Brando's first wife denied her dying wish to be buried next to their killer eldest child - by the son's first wife who has reserved the plot and refuses to give it up . In: Daily Mail . August 31, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
