City of Spokane Valley Spokane County, Washington


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City of Spokane Valley: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.

 

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General information on City of Spokane Valley

  • Feature Type: Incorporated

 

Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Spokane Valley

A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named

Name Description
City of Spokane Valley Official
Spokane Valley Official

 

Related Catalog Titles

A Bibliography for City of Spokane Valley, Spokane County, Washington

The Spokane Valley by Florence Boutwell (Compiler)

Compiled by local historian Florence Boutwell, The Spokane Valley chronicles the rapid transformation of Washington's inland plateau from an arid, pine-studded expanse into a flourishing agricultural and suburban community. Drawing on historical photographs, diaries, and local records, the book details the arrival of early homesteaders, the expansion of the Northern Pacific Railway, and the monumental irrigation efforts that turned the valley into a patchwork of prolific apple orchards and dairy farms. The text captures the close-knit social fabric of small pioneer settlements like Dishman, Millwood, and Opportunity as they gradually yielded to suburban expansion. A keen insight drawn from the work is how suburbanization in the Inland Empire inverted traditional migration patterns; unlike coastal regions where cities pushed outward, the Spokane Valley's agricultural hubs were explicitly established along irrigation canals first, forming rural clusters that later coalesced into a modern bedroom community.

3 volumes : illustrations, maps (1 folded) ; 29 cm

CIRC [ 1 ]

 


 

Last updated: 2017-01-14