Grant County County
Mapped Location
Grant County: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Grant County
- Feature Type: County
- County Seat: City of Ephrata
- Established: Wednesday, February 24, 1909
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Grant County
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Grant County | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Grant County
References to Grant County that document the origin of its place name
GRANT COUNTY, created by state law approved on February 24, 1909. The name was given in honor of President Ulysses S. Grant.
Related Catalog Titles
A Bibliography for Grant County, County
Old West in Grant County country by Monty Hormel
Authored by local historian Monty Hormel, Old West in Grant County Country chronicles the rugged frontier heritage and colorful historical legacy of eastern Oregon's high desert mining and ranching country. The book details the turbulent late-19th-century era defined by gold rushes, cattle drives, vigilante justice, and the sheer tenacity of homesteaders who carved out lives in an arid, isolated landscape. Through vintage photographs and local archives, the text preserves the vanishing oral histories and dramatic episodes that shaped communities like John Day and Canyon City. A keen insight drawn from the work is how the popular mythology of the "Old West" masks the mundane economic desperation of frontier extraction; by examining the boom-and-bust cycles driven by mineral exhaustion and grazing limits, the narrative reveals that legendary tales of outlaw lawlessness often served to distract from the grinding precariousness of living on depleted land.
vii, 95 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Grant County
- Adco
- Adrian
- Atwood
- Bacon
- Barham
- Bassett Junction
- Beverly
- Cascade Valley
- Corfu
- Town of Coulee City
- Crater
- Delano Heights
- Desert Aire
- Dry Falls Junction
- East Heights
- City of Electric City
- City of Ephrata
- Fordair
- City of George
- Gloyd
- City of Grand Coulee
- Hanson
- Town of Hartline
- Jericho
- Town of Krupp
- Laing
- Lakeview
- Lakeview Park
- Low Gap
- Mae
- Marlin
- City of Mattawa
- McDonald
- Mitchell
- City of Moses Lake
- Naylor
- Odair
- Osborne
- City of Quincy
- Ritell
- City of Royal City
- Ruff
- Schwana
- Sieler
- Smyrna
- City of Soap Lake
- Stratford
- Tiflis
- Trinidad
- Wanapum Village
- City of Warden
- West Warden
- Wheeler
- Town of Wilson Creek
- Winchester
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2017-06-30