Kangley (Washington)
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Location in Washington
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Washington | ||
| County : | King County | ||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 22 ′ N , 121 ° 53 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
| FIPS : | 53-34855 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1521565 | ||
Kangley is an unincorporated community in King County in the State of Washington . It is east of Maple Valley and north of Kanaskat-Palmer State Park .
Kangley is 29 miles (47 km) southeast of Seattle on the former Northern Pacific and Milwaukee Railroad . At the end of Kent-Kangley Road , Kangley is four miles (6.5 km) east of Ravensdale and two miles (3.2 km) south of Selleck; you go from the intersection of Kent-Kangley Rd. and the 346 th Ave SE north to the SE 263 rd Place near Brown's Creek .
The place formed in the late 1880s due to the coal deposits and was named after the Vice President of the Northern Pacific Coal Co. , John Kangley. The mine in Kangley, which at times consisted of three different shafts, was one of those with the highest quality coal with an ash content of only two and a half to three percent, while the coal produced elsewhere had an ash content of 10… 15%. A post office was opened in Kangley on June 30, 1890. John Peterson Jr. was the first officer. The mail was distributed in the mine where Peterson worked. On October 20, 1898, the post office was closed for four years; it was reopened on February 28, 1903. With the reopening, John Lavender became head of office. The mail was distributed from Lavender's Store . On March 4, 1910, the name of the post office was changed to Selleck. An area near Lavender's Store , between Kangley and Selleck, was called Lavender Town . The post office was finally closed and the zip code 98064 merged with that of Ravensdale to form 98051.
Coal production was restricted in 1912… 1914. Owned by the Northern Pacific Coal Co. , most of the houses in Kangley were collapsed and transported by rail to Roslyn, where mining began to boom. A few original miners' houses remained, v. a. at SE 268th Place .
A pillar of later life in Kangley was Truman's Country Store , located at the corner of SE 268 th St. / 348 th Ave SE was. The Eigtentümer of the general store with gas station and pub Truman Nelson , came in 1965 after Kangley and could be regularly observed as his golf cart the 346 th Ave SE up and down went. The closure of Truman's Country Store in the 1980s marked the end of Kangley's business life and shortly thereafter the area was no longer considered a city.
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- credit-Globe News, July 4, 1976