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Housing Units (2000): 530
Land area (2000): 1.098086 sq. miles (2.844029 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.093927 sq. miles (0.243269 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.192013 sq. miles (3.087298 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27855
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.939706 N, 119.001597 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99133
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Grand Coulee
Wikipedia
The Grand Coulee is an ancient river bed in the U.S. state of Washington. This National Natural Landmark stretches for about 60 miles (100 km) southwest from Grand Coulee Dam to Soap Lake, being bisected by Dry Falls into the Upper and Lower Grand Coulee.
Grand Coulee may refer to:
- Grand Coulee, an ancient river bed in Washington, United States
- Grand Coulee Dam, the largest hydroelectric generating facility in the United States
- "Grand Coulee Dam" (song), an American folk song by Woody Guthrie
- Grand Coulee, Washington, a city in Grant County, Washington, United States
- Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan, a village in Saskatchewan, Canada
Usage examples of "grand coulee".
From Independence Hall to the Grand Coulee Dam, these things were built level and square by craftsmen who were honest in their bones.
That's me at the Grand Canyon, that's me in Seattle, that's me at Grand Coulee Dam.
Some 500 cubic miles of water drained from the lake through the Grand Coulee within a period of about two weeks, scouring the Washington landscape known as the Channeled Scablands and draining into the Pacific through the Columbia Gorge.
Ricki just stood there, up to her elbows in glassware, looking as if she'd had the brain electricity sucked out of her by the black hole, which on the TV, had stopped eating Grand Coulee Dam and was sharing a granola bar with Jeffrey Joshua.
Dropped from that earlier list were the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Empire State Building, the Grand Coulee Dam, the Colorado River Aqueduct and the Chicago sewage disposal system (surely a wonder suited particularly to engineers' discernment).
Boulder, Hoover, and Grand Coulee Dams were in various stages of completion in the 1930s.
In addition, he worked with the Coast Guard, the National Directorate of the National Guard and with the fifty governors to establish security at our major infrastructure sites such as Hoover Dam, the Grand Coulee Dam and other sites inside our borders.
It lay at the eleven hundred foot level on the spur line that sent by-product irrigation water into Grand Coulee system.