28 Facts About Vancouver Washington

Vancouver Washington is the county seat of Clark County and forms part of the Portland-Vancouver Washington metropolitan area, the 25th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Vancouver Washington area was inhabited by several Native American tribes, most recently the Chinook and Klickitat nations, with permanent settlements of timber longhouses.

Meriwether Lewis wrote that the Vancouver Washington area was "the only desired situation for settlement west of the Rocky Mountains.

Army presence in Vancouver Washington was very strong, as the Department of the Columbia built and moved to Vancouver Washington Barracks, the military reservation for which stretched from the river to what is currently Fourth Plain Boulevard and was the largest Army base in the region until surpassed by Fort Lewis, 120 miles to the north.

Vancouver Washington became the end point for two ultra-long flights from Moscow, USSR, over the North Pole.

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Vancouver Washington has recently experienced conflicts with other Clark County communities because of rapid growth in the area.

West Vancouver Washington is home to downtown Vancouver Washington and most of the more historical parts of the city, as well as recent high-density mixed-use development.

East Vancouver Washington includes the communities of Cascade Park East and West, which had populations of 6, 996 and 6, 956 in 1990, before annexation.

Vancouver, British Columbia, was incorporated 29 years after the incorporation of Vancouver, Washington, and more than 60 years after the name Vancouver was first used in reference to the historic Fort Vancouver trading post on the Columbia River.

City officials have periodically suggested changing the U S city's name to Fort Vancouver to reduce confusion with its larger and better-known northern neighbor.

Vancouver Washington is located just north of the Columbia River and the Oregon border, just west of where the Columbia River Gorge bisects the volcanic Cascade Range and just east of where the Willamette River enters the Columbia.

Unsheltered by the Willamette Valley, Vancouver Washington has historically seen colder temperatures, including "silver thaw" storms where freezing rain cakes limbs and power lines.

Vancouver Washington economy is characterized by border economics with neighboring Portland, Oregon.

Oregon has stricter development laws to protect the timber industry; therefore, Vancouver Washington tends to attract a higher proportion of the region's sprawling development.

Vancouver Washington contains the corporate headquarters for Nautilus, Inc, ZoomInfo, Papa Murphy's Pizza and The Holland.

Port of Vancouver USA operates a port on the Columbia River, which separates Oregon to the south and Washington to the north.

Vancouver Washington Energy project was a proposed crude oil transport hub in the Port of Vancouver Washington USA.

Vancouver Washington Energy ended its bid to build the hub in February 2018 following Governor Jay Inslee's rejection of the project.

In June 2010, the City of Vancouver Washington agreed to purchase the former downtown Columbian office building for use as a new city hall.

Since the mid-1960s, Vancouver Washington hosted a Fourth of July fireworks display on the grounds of Fort Vancouver Washington National Historic Site that draws many people to the city.

Vancouver Washington has two school districts: Vancouver Washington Public Schools and Evergreen School District.

Evergreen School District covers most of east Vancouver Washington and has seven high schools: Evergreen High School, Mountain View High School, Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School, Heritage High School, Union High School, Legacy High School, and Cascadia Technical Academy.

Vancouver Washington is located within the Portland media market for print, radio, and television media.

Vancouver Washington has two interstate freeways, I-5 and I-205, both of which run north–south, across the Columbia River into Portland and toward Seattle.

In 2012, Vancouver Washington voters rejected a sales tax proposal to fund light rail operations in connection with the Columbia River Crossing proposal.

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Vancouver Washington has always been well served by rail; current freight railroads operating in Vancouver Washington include the BNSF, Union Pacific, and the local shortline Lewis and Clark Railway.

In 2008, Vancouver Washington passed a citywide law requiring anyone on a wheeled device such as a bicycle, skateboard, scooter or skates to wear a helmet while on any sidewalk, street, trail or other public property.

Vancouver Washington previously had a sister-city relationship with Arequipa, Peru, between 1961 and 1993, but that relationship ended.