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Kettle Falls, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
Population (2000): 1527
Housing Units (2000): 686
Land area (2000): 0.936187 sq. miles (2.424713 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000296 sq. miles (0.000766 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.936483 sq. miles (2.425479 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35485
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 48.605908 N, 118.059667 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99141
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Housing Units (2000): 686
Land area (2000): 0.936187 sq. miles (2.424713 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000296 sq. miles (0.000766 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.936483 sq. miles (2.425479 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35485
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 48.605908 N, 118.059667 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99141
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Kettle Falls
Kettle Falls ( Salish: Shonitkwu, meaning "roaring or noisy waters", also Schwenetekoo translated as “Keep Sounding Water”) was an ancient and important salmon fishing site on the upper reaches of the Columbia River, in what is today the U.S. state of Washington, near the Canada–US border. The falls consisted of a series of rapids and cascades where the river passed through quartzite rocks deposited by prehistoric floods on a substrate of Columbia River basalt. The river dropped nearly , and the sound of the falls could be heard for miles away. Kettle Falls was inundated in 1940, as the waters of the reservoir Lake Roosevelt rose behind Grand Coulee Dam, permanently flooding the site.