Doty, Washington
Unincorporated community in Lewis County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Doty
Doty, Washington is an unincorporated community located 1.3 miles (2.1 km) directly west of Dryad and 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Pe Ell on Washington State Route 6. As of 2023, approximately 250 people reside in or around Doty, which boasts a general store, post office, fire department, and two churches. Logging and farming are the industries that most of the residents rely on for income.
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How Doty is governed
Doty appears to be an unincorporated community or a census-designated place, so it may have no city government of its own — services usually come from Lewis County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Doty does have local officials.
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Residents of Doty
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History
The Doty-Dryad area was once known as North Prairie and the lands were first settled in 1852 by Joseph and Karolina Mauermann, Austrian immigrants who traveled by wagon train from Missouri. The region was inundated with strands of old growth fir and teemed with abundant wildlife, including cougars which caused issues for farmers attempting to raise cattle. The closest post office at the time was in Olympia, approximately 50 miles (80 km) away.
Chauncey A. Doty built a sawmill in the area around 1900, and the community that sprang up around it was named after him. Doty once boasted the largest sawmill in Lewis County. In 1923, the Cowlitz, Chehalis, & Cascade Railroad, during a region-wide expansion, renamed the spur station at Doty to Macomber, in honor of a local family.
Post office
A post office was established in Doty inside a store on November 2, 1900 but the building was lost in a fire. Reestablished inside the historic Doty General Store, the post office was once moved to a postmaster's house in 1957 where it operated until shifting back to the store in 1973. In 2000, the post office celebrated its 100th anniversary though the location only provided post office boxes for rental.
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