Pullman (Washington)
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 Washington State University's Thompson Hall |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1875 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Washington |
| County : | Whitman County |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 44 ′ N , 117 ° 10 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) |
| Residents : | 29,799 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 1,278.9 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 23.3 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of which 23.3 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 717 m |
| Postcodes : | 99163-99165 |
| Area code : | +1 509 |
| FIPS : | 53-56625 |
| GNIS ID : | 1531905 |
| Website : | www.pullman-wa.gov |
| Mayor : | Glenn A. Johnson |
Pullman is a city in Whitman County in eastern Washington state . The place has 32,176 inhabitants (official estimate 2016) and is the seat of Washington State University .
geography
Pullman is located on the Palouse Prairie, a fertile hilly landscape where mainly wheat, beans, peas and lentils are grown and has a water supply from groundwater.
The city lies on four hills that divide it into four roughly equal parts of the city. Clockwise, these are College Hill, Sunnyside Hill, Pioneer Hill, and Military Hill.
The urban area is located at an altitude of 778 m above sea level and extends according to the data of the United States Census Bureau over 23.3 km² .
climate
The place has mostly dry and clear climate. Summers are warm and dry and winters are cold and humid.
history
Bolin Farr was the first settler to camp at the confluence of Dry Flat Creek and Missouri Flat Creek in 1876 . That year Dan McKenzie and William Ellsworth also arrived to stake land and assert their rights. The first post office here was built under the name Three Forks , after the three waterways Missouri Flat Creek , Dry Fork and South Fork of the Palouse River , which flow together here. In the spring of 1881, Orville Stewart opened a shop and Bolin Farr cleared about four acres of his land to create a town. In the same decade, the area was newly laid out by Dan McKenzie and Charles Moore (from Moscow ) and named after George Mortimer Pullman , who founded the Pullman Car Company .
In 1961 Pullman became a city . The city has a city council of seven elected members and one appointed administrative director. Mayor since 2004 is Glenn A. Johnson, a professor at Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow School of Communication . His current term ends in 2019.
Population development
| year | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 |
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| Residents | 868 | 1,308 | 2,602 | 2,440 | 3,322 | 4,417 | 12,022 | 12,951 | 20,509 | 23,579 | 23,478 | 24,675 | 29,799 |
| 1980–2010: census results | |||||||||||||
Culture
There is the Pullman Civic Theater (founded in 1946) and the University's WSU Theater in Pullman . In Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum various major events (such as concerts, ballets, operas, etc.) are listed. The Washington Idaho Symphony is the local philharmonic orchestra.
On the WSU campus there is the Museum of Anthropology, the WSU Museum of Art and various collections.
education
Washington State University (WSU) is based in Pullman . The university was founded in 1890 and today, with its 18,321 students (students at the main location in Pullman), it shapes the city. About twelve kilometers further east is Moscow (Idaho) , where the University of Idaho is located.
economy
Pullman's economy has historically been shaped by agriculture. Today the university is the city's most important employer with 5,300 employees. Several industrial companies are based in Pullman. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories with 837 employees manufactures control instruments for electrical systems, Metriguard test machines for the wood industry and AHA hardware for the communications industry. VMRD Inc. is a biotechnology company.
traffic
The bus company Wheatland Express connects the city daily with Spokane International Airport and the neighboring city of Moscow in Idaho .
Pullman has one airport, Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport , with four daily flights to Seattle .
Town twinning
Kasai has been Pullman's twin town in the Japanese prefecture of Hyōgo since 1989 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Joshua Goldstein (* 1965), population scientist and sociologist
- James N. Mattis (born 1950), US Secretary of Defense
- Marshall Allen Neill (1914–1979), lawyer and politician
- Miles Okazaki (* 1974), jazz guitarist and composer
- Robert Rumely (* 1952), mathematician
- Dana Claire Simpson (* 1977), comic book artist
Web links
- Pullman Chamber of Commerce (Engl.)
- Map of Pullman (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ^ American FactFinder - Pullman City, Washington , accessed April 8, 2018
- ^ Elma MacGibbon: Columbia River and Pullman . In: Leaves of knowledge (DJVU) (= Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection), Shaw & Borden, 1904.