Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 471
Land area (2000): 1.070075 sq. miles (2.771482 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.070075 sq. miles (2.771482 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52950
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.909996 N, 117.075259 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99161
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Palouse
Wikipedia
The Palouse is a region of the northwestern United States, encompassing parts of southeastern Washington, north central Idaho and, by some definitions, parts of northeast Oregon. It is a major agricultural area, primarily producing wheat and legumes. Situated about north of the Oregon Trail, the region experienced rapid growth in the late 19th century and was once Washington's most populous region, surpassing even the Puget Sound area.
The Palouse is home to two land grant universities, the University of Idaho in Moscow and Washington State University in Pullman. Just eight miles (13 km) apart, both schools opened in the early 1890s.
Palouse may mean:
- the Palouse, geographic region in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, in the United States
- Palus people, a Native American people in the United States
- Palouse, Washington, a city in the United States
- the Palouse River, in Idaho and Washington, in the United States
Usage examples of "palouse".
Jensen rode his big Palouse, Horse, into Big Rock, Colorado, just as the sun peeked over the mountains to the east.
He heeled the Palouse forward at a lope to find out what the shouting was all about, to see if a neighbor or a friend might be in trouble.
He swung down, leaving the Palouse ground-hitched, his eyes fastened on the man resting his palm on his gun grips.
Smoke urged his Palouse forward, keeping one eye on the fallen warriors and the other on the pass.
Pearlie said caused Smoke any worry as he mounted his bay Palouse colt.
Pearlie started laughing again, Smoke swung down from the saddle, exhausted by a long night ride to reach the herd as soon as he could, resting his Palouse more often on the return trip to spare it any bog spavins or other lameness.
Smoke sat his Palouse on a high bluff above the river, watching things carefully from a considerable distance before he rode down to test the river bottom for treacherous sand pits and bogs.
Eastern Washington has fertile fields, arid desert, the rolling Palouse Hills covered with a sea of wheat, and orchards as far as the eye can see.
It was a long, wild ride through the moonlit Palouse that night, with him speeding down the straightaways and braking on the curves.
The Larssons made their first pile trading wheat from Pendleton and the Palouse down the Columbia to Portland.
He had stayed at the Days Inn in Nampa and dedicated one day to driving up to the Palouse to visit his parents, then, after making sure that Betsy needed nothing more, had flown back to D.
Nate hefted his Hawken rifle and guided his Palouse in the direction the moan came from.
With a jab of his heels he moved the Palouse to one side in case Cain should miss and the knife should fall back down, but Cain deftly caught it by the dull side of the blade.
If a stranger tried to climb up, the Palouse would shy away, kick or buck.
Nate said, continuing to stroke the Palouse and to scan the heights above.