Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington/Eastern Washington task force

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Eastern Washington. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. This project was officially started on 9 August 2006.

Things You Can Do

 * 1) List your name among the participants.
 * 2) Edit and expand this page. We need a solid foundation for the project in order to continue.
 * 3) Add pages to the articles covered section below.

Scope
WikiProject Eastern Washington's goal is to add content, photos and information for all Eastern Washington pages. Right now it is focused on cities, towns, counties and places but as the project grows we hope to expand and cover all things related to Eastern Washington!

Participants
Anyone from, or with knowledge of Eastern Washington is welcome!

Inactive participants

 * Alexandermiller - No edits since September 2012
 * LaceyCantaloupe - No edits since August 2006
 * JfrenchGU - No edits since October 2006
 * Nrodovsky - No edits since October 2010
 * Tippleman - No edits since Septmeber 2006
 * --Wo o ty Woot? contribs 20:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC) - No edits in history at all
 * CascadiaTALK | HISTORY - No edits since June 2007
 * JStripes - 4 edits since September 2009. They were in March 2011
 * User:Floridan - No edits since February 2011
 * the pink panther - No edits since November 2009
 * Kappabayan - No edits since December 2009
 * Akihironihongo - Has said they are retired on User page since November 17, 2012

Articles Covered
This is a short list of the articles that this WikiProject should focus on currently. The full list of articles can be found here.

Combined Statistical Areas

 * Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area
 * Pullman–Moscow combined statistical area
 * Moses Lake–Othello combined statistical area

Metropolitan Areas

 * Lewiston–Clarkston metropolitan area
 * Spokane metropolitan area
 * Tri-Cities metropolitan area
 * Wenatchee metropolitan area

Cities & Towns

 * Clarkston
 * Ellensburg
 * Moses Lake
 * Omak
 * Pullman
 * Republic
 * Ritzville
 * Spokane
 * Spokane Valley
 * Sunnyside
 * Tri-Cities
 * Richland
 * Pasco
 * Kennewick
 * Walla Walla
 * Wenatchee
 * Yakima

Counties

 * Adams
 * Asotin
 * Benton
 * Chelan
 * Columbia
 * Douglas
 * Ferry
 * Franklin
 * Garfield
 * Grant
 * Kittitas
 * Kittitas
 * Okanogan
 * Pend Oreille
 * Spokane
 * Stevens
 * Walla Walla
 * Whitman
 * Yakima

Mountains

 * Abercrombie Mountain
 * Alpowa Summit
 * Gypsy Peak
 * Jump Off Joe
 * Krell Hill
 * Lilienthal Mountain
 * Lookout Summit
 * Mica Peak
 * Milk Shakes
 * Mount Adams
 * Mount Kit Carson
 * Mount Spokane
 * Rattlesnake Mountain
 * Steptoe Butte
 * Tekoa Mountain
 * Vulcan Mountain

Mountain Ranges

 * Columbia Mountains
 * Monashee Mountains
 * Kettle River Range
 * Okanogan Highlands
 * Selkirk Mountains
 * Holiday Hills
 * Dishman Hills
 * Horse Heaven Hills

Waterways

 * Chelan River
 * Columbia River
 * Colville River
 * Crab Creek
 * Entiat River
 * Kettle River
 * Klickitat River
 * Latah Creek
 * Methow River
 * Nespelem River
 * Okanogan River
 * Palouse River
 * Pend Oreille River
 * Sanpoil River
 * Spokane River
 * Walla Walla River
 * Wenatchee River
 * White Salmon River
 * Yakima River

Significant Eastern Washington geologic features

 * Channeled scablands
 * Lake Chelan
 * Columbia River Basalt Group
 * Curlew Lake
 * Dry Falls
 * Drumheller Channels
 * Grand Coulee
 * Kamiak Butte
 * Keechelus Lake
 * Moses Coulee
 * Omak Lake
 * Palouse Falls
 * Potholes Reservoir
 * Sims Corner Eskers and Kames
 * Soap Lake
 * Wallula Gap
 * Withrow Moraine

History

 * Carlton Complex Fire
 * Fort Walla Walla
 * Great Fire of 1910
 * Hanford Site
 * History of Spokane
 * Kennewick Man
 * Okanogan Complex Fire
 * Spokane and British Columbia Railway
 * Thirtymile Fire
 * Wenatchee child abuse prosecutions
 * Whitman massacre
 * Marcus Whitman
 * Narcissa Whitman
 * Yakima War

Other
These articles are less important to this project at this point, but of course any contribution is welcomed.
 * Eastern Washington
 * Okanogan Country


 * Appaloosa

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Washington
 * WikiProject Oregon
 * WikiProject British Columbia
 * WikiProject Okanagan
 * Wikiproject Indigenous peoples of North America

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
 * Example article: User:Example
 * History of Spokane: Alexandermiller
 * Spokane River: SpokaneWilly

Requests

 * Maps - It would be nice if we could have a better map available for the communities in Chelan County, instead of the simple dot on the state map, similar to what is used in Maricopa County, Arizona for their communities. I know Chelan County isn't as large or have as many cities, but a closer view of just Chelan County vs. a entire state view would be better. I tried to find a good base map, but I can't find one. Cascadia 16:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Get the correct spelling on places - like the Fox Theater, some genius has the article titled Fox Theatre.
 * I'm working on editing Hanford site, and I would eventually like to take it to good article status. Would anybody like to assess the article for the Eastern Washington Project or provide feedback? Northwest-historian (talk) 07:13, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Any help at The George Nethercutt Foundation would be appreciated. Thanks--Counsel (talk) 00:43, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * An article on Rufus Woods, the namesake of Rufus Woods Lake and one-time publisher of the Wenatchee Daily World (http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/history/),who is notable due to his role in the decades-long battle to get the Grand Coulee Dam built.(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/coulee/, http://wiki.sos.wa.gov/ndnp/Default.aspx?Page=Wenatchee_Daily_World) 72.244.200.63 (talk) 03:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Photos & other enhancements requested
Unless noted otherwise, the following articles have no pictures. Anyone's pictures would be appreciated.

Adams County

 * Adams County, Washington article has one picture
 * Hatton
 * Lind
 * Othello is largest city in Adams, but has only a single picture
 * Cunningham
 * Keystone
 * Royal Slope
 * Dr. Frank R. Burroughs House in Ritzville is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places
 * Nelson H. Greene House, located in Ritzville is a house listed on the NRHP
 * Strap Iron Corral located 5 miles north of Hooper is listed on the NRHP
 * Seivers Brothers Ranchhouse and Barn located in Lind is listed on the NRHP

Asotin County

 * Cloverland, Washington is 11.5 miles (18.5 km) southwest of Asotin.
 * Cloverland Garage in Cloverland
 * Full Gospel Church at 1st and Monroe Streets in Asotin, Washington

Benton County

 * Highland has only one picture.
 * Steve Young, former Kennewick mayor, needs picture.
 * Whitcomb

Chelan County

 * Chelan River
 * Chelan Mountains
 * Sunnyslope
 * South Wenatchee
 * Entiat
 * Chelan Falls
 * Ardenvoir
 * Chumstick
 * Dryden
 * Holden Village
 * Malaga
 * Monitor
 * Peshastin
 * Stehekin
 * Winton
 * Blewett - the ghost town
 * Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD)
 * Wenatchee School District
 * Chatter Creek Guard Station in Leavenworth
 * Columbia River Bridge (Wenatchee, Washington) is a historic bridge that spans the Columbia River between Wenatchee and East Wenatchee
 * Rock Island Railroad Bridge (Columbia River) lies SW of Rock Island over the Columbia River

Columbia County

 * Marengo

Douglas County

 * Douglas County, Washington article could use geology discussion with articles
 * Bridgeport
 * Gallaher House in Bridgeport is on National Register of Historic Places
 * East Wenatchee has only one photo - light for a community of 13,000
 * Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site is on National Register of Historic Places
 * Rock Island
 * Rock Island Railroad Bridge (Columbia River) is on National Register of Historic Places
 * Waterville is lightly covered for a county seat (only an ambiguous snowstorm shot and a Route 2 shot taken outside of town)
 * Orondo
 * Palisades

Ferry County

 * Ferry County, Washington could use more pictures on the main article
 * Inchelium
 * Barstow
 * Boyds
 * Curlew
 * Danville
 * Impach
 * Keller
 * Laurier
 * Malo
 * Orient

Franklin County

 * Basin City
 * Connell
 * Mesa
 * West Pasco
 * Eltopia
 * Franklin County, Washington could use more photos

Garfield County

 * Pomeroy is the county seat - can you believe not pictures!
 * Pataha
 * Lewis and Clark Trail-Travois Road is a surviving stretch of Indian travois trail followed by Lewis and Clark 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Pomeroy on U.S. Route 12.

Grant County

 * Geoprahic features - Moses Lake& Potholes Reservoir
 * Columbia National Wildlife Refuge
 * Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
 * Banks Lake South
 * Cascade Valley
 * Coulee City
 * Desert Aire
 * Electric City
 * Ephrata is lightly covered for a county seat
 * Grand Coulee
 * Hartline
 * Krupp (also known as Marlin)
 * Lakeview
 * Quincy has two photos - both from locales 5-10 miles outside of Quincy
 * Royal City
 * Warden
 * Wilson Creek
 * Beverly, Washington
 * Stratford
 * Trinidad
 * Grant County Public Utility District

Kittitas County

 * Ronald
 * South Cle Elum
 * Liberty
 * Suncadia
 * Teanaway
 * Olmstead Place State Park

Klickitat County

 * Bingen
 * Centerville
 * Dallesport
 * Roosevelt
 * Trout Lake
 * Cleveland just west of Bickleton contains an old cemetery and a refurbished rodeo.
 * Husum located at Husum Falls on the White Salmon River

Lincoln County

 * Almira
 * Odessa
 * Irby
 * Creston
 * Harrington
 * Lamona
 * Lincoln
 * Davenport - as a county seat, it could use more photos
 * Mohler
 * Edwall

Okanogan County

 * Okanogan County, Washington article has only a courthouse photo
 * Elmer City
 * Nespelem
 * Nespelem Community
 * North Omak
 * Riverside
 * Tonasket
 * Twisp
 * Carlton
 * Mason City
 * Mazama
 * Nighthawk
 * Wauconda

Pend Oreille County

 * Cusick
 * Ione
 * Metaline
 * Metaline Falls
 * Newport
 * Tiger
 * Usk
 * Dr. John and Viola Phillips House and Office at 337 Spokane Ave. in Newport, Washington

Spokane County

 * Little Spokane River
 * Liberty Lake on the Idaho state line.
 * Newman Lake is 17 miles (27 km) east-northeast of downtown Spokane.
 * Dishman Hills Natural Conservation Area
 * Nine Mile Falls, Washington is 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Spokane near Riverside State Park (includes the Bowl and Pitcher)
 * Airway Heights
 * Cheney - can you beleie a university town has no pictures.
 * Country Homes
 * Deer Park
 * Fairfield
 * Fairwood
 * Latah
 * Liberty Lake
 * Medical Lake
 * Millwood is surrounded on three sides by the city of Spokane Valley.
 * Otis Orchards-East Farms
 * Rockford
 * Spangle
 * Spokane Bridge is the first settlement in the Spokane Valley, and needs considerable expansion.
 * Spokane Valley
 * Town and Country
 * Waverly
 * Cheney Odd Fellows Hall at 321 First St. in Cheney
 * Millwood Historic District in Millwood- Roughly bounded by Argonne and Sargent Rds., and by Euclid and Liberty Aves.

Stevens County

 * Addy
 * Clayton
 * Loon Lake
 * Marcus
 * Northport
 * Springdale
 * Cedonia
 * Evans
 * Ford
 * Fruitland
 * Gifford
 * Hunters
 * Rice
 * Suncrest
 * Tumtum (also known as Tum Tum)
 * Valley
 * Wellpinit

Walla Walla County

 * Blue Mountains
 * McNary National Wildlife Refuge
 * Burbank
 * College Place
 * Dixie
 * Garrett
 * Electric Light Works Building - now the home of the Power House Theater is on NRHP
 * Preston Hall (Waitsburg, Washington) is on NRHP

Whitman County

 * Union Flat Creek
 * Lake Herbert G. West, formed by Lower Monumental Dam
 * Albion
 * Colton 14 miles south of Pullman
 * Garfield
 * Lamont
 * Malden
 * Oakesdale
 * Palouse has a regional photo only
 * Rosalia
 * Saint John
 * Steptoe is 11 miles north of Colfax
 * Tekoa has great historic picture, but nothing current
 * Uniontown
 * Belmont
 * Ewan
 * Hay
 * Thornton
 * Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Palouse, Washington) at 105 E. Alder Street is on NRHP
 * Interior Grain Tramway, which operated until 1938 near Pullman, is on NRHP and would benefit from historic photos
 * Masonic Hall (Farmington, Washington) is on NRHP
 * United Presbyterian Church (Pullman, Washington) is on NRHP

Yakima County

 * Ahtanum Creek
 * Ahtanum
 * Eschbach
 * Gleed
 * Grandview
 * Harrah
 * Mabton
 * Moxee
 * Naches
 * Satus
 * Summitview
 * Tampico, Washington eight miles west of Yakima on Ahtanum Creek
 * Terrace Heights
 * Tieton
 * Union Gap
 * Wapato
 * White Swan
 * Edgar Rock Lodge - a rustic house on the road over Chinook Pass to Bumping Lakeis on the NRHP
 * Compass High School (Grandview, Washington) is on the NRHP
 * Kamiakin's Gardens near Ahtanum Creek is on the NRHP
 * Yakima Indian Agency Building, also known as the Toppenish Historical Museum is on the NRHP
 * Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge near Sunnyside