Kittitas County, Washington

205 W 5th Ave Rm 108
Ellensburg, WA 98926
Phone: (509) 962-7508
Fax: (509) 962-7679
www.co.kittitas.wa.us

In central WA, southeast of Tacoma; organized Nov 2, 1883 (prior to statehood) from Yakima County. Name Origin: Probably from a subtribal name of the Yakima Indians. Meaning uncertain, with 'shoal people' most appropriate, but 'land of bread' has also been suggested, as has 'gray gravel bank,' said to refer to a gravel bank on a river shoal

Area (sq mi):: 2333.11 (land 2297.19; water 35.93) Population per square mile: 16.00
Population 2005: 36,841 State rank: 25 Population change: 2000-20005 10.40%; 1990-2000 24.80% Population 2000: 33,362 (White 89.40%; Black or African American 0.70%; Hispanic or Latino 5.00%; Asian 2.20%; Other 5.30%). Foreign born: 5.30%. Median age: 31.40
Income 2000: per capita $18,928; median household $32,546; Population below poverty level: 19.60% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $23,028-$24,048
Unemployment (2004): 6.50% Unemployment change (from 2000): 0.00% Median travel time to work: 22.00 minutes Working outside county of residence: 16.10%

Cities with population over 10,000:

Ellensburg County seat

(16,385)

See other counties in Washington.

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Sky Lanterns have also been banned in Kittitas County, Washington due to fire concerns on 20 June 2013.

Freeze: Dangerous Sky Lanterns and Balloons

The fastest-growing counties in Washington during that time period were Kittitas County (1.8 percent), Snohomish County (1.8 percent), Clark County (1.7 percent), King County (1.6 percent) and Pierce County (1.4 percent).

Whatcom County adds 7,000 residents in four years

The former search-and-rescue coordinator for Kittitas County Sheriff's Department in Ellensburg, Wash., received Boats & Blinds honorable mention for the Beaver Hut.

Pacific northwest waterfowler's dream: it took four decades, but Fred Slyfield finally has his ultimate blind

A company that won a bid to start trucking a bulk of Seattle's food and yard waste east of the Cascade Mountains in April still hasn't told city officials where that plant will be located, but is looking outside Kittitas County after facing neighborhood opposition.

Washington's PacifiClean still searching for site for large-scale composting plant

- Two young boys died Friday in a house fire in this small Cascade foothills town despite efforts to save them by their mother, police and fire crews, a Kittitas County fire official said.

BRIEFLY METRO

To the Editor: On August 5, 1994, a northern spotted owl, Strix occidentalis caurina, was found dead in Kittitas County, Washington, USA (1).

Identical strains of Borrelia hermsii in mammal and bird

Making the Grade: Plucky Schoolmarms of Kittitas Country collects the first-person testimonies of thirteen Kittitas County schoolmarms who served from 1914 to 1942.

Making the Grade

Similarly, the project would provide Kittitas County Fire District No.

STUDY: Desert Claim Wind Power Project in Washington Offers 'Economic Stimulus'

The order covers supply and commissioning of additional V80-2.0 MW wind turbines for expanding the existing 229 MW Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility in Ellensburg, Kittitas County.

Vestas Wind Systems A/S wins wind turbines order from Puget Sound Energy in the US