Nile (Washington)

Nile
Nile Location in Washington
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	Washington
County :	Yakima County
Coordinates :	46 ° 49 ′  N , 120 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′  N , 120 ° 56 ′  W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	140 (as of April 1, 2010 )
Height :	611 m
Postal code :	98937
Area code :	+1 509
GNIS ID :	1523659

Nile is an unincorporated community in Yakima County in the State of Washington , about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Ellensburg in the Nile Valley, adjacent to the Naches River . It is located near the mouth of Rattlesnake Creek at 611 meters.

The community was founded in the mid-1890s by the families of James Beck, William Markle and Henry Sedge, who may have named the town and the small valley after the fertility of the area in memory of the Nile Valley in Egypt . According to the historian Gretta Gossett “there is yet an alluvial plain along the river near Nile Creek which is often flooded in the spring and left with a layer of silt perhaps giving rise to the name for the Nile in Egypt” (German about “gives there is an alluvial plain on Nile Creek, which is often flooded in spring and leaves a layer of mud, so that it is reminiscent of the Nile in Egypt ”).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nile in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
2. ↑ US Board on Geographic Names . United States Geological Survey . October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
3. ^ Washington Place Names database . Tacoma Public Library. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2012.