Nine Mile Falls, Washington
Unincorporated community in Spokane County, Stevens County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Nine Mile Falls
Nine Mile Falls is an unincorporated community in Spokane County, Washington and Stevens County, Washington, United States. The community straddles the Spokane River 9 miles (14 km) from downtown Spokane, at the location of a former falls that has been the site of Nine Mile Dam since 1908.
Nine Mile Falls has a post office with ZIP code 99026.
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How Nine Mile Falls is governed
Nine Mile Falls 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 Spokane County, Stevens County and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Nine Mile Falls does have local officials.
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History
The Spokane people inhabited the area for thousands of years prior to European settlement. The rivers supported salmon runs that provided bountiful food for the area's inhabitants, though the runs were killed off when Long Lake Dam was built in 1915 without a fish ladder. There are ancient rock paintings located along the Little Spokane River just upstream from its confluence with the Spokane River.
Europeans have had a constant presence in the Nine Mile area since the Spokane House was established at the confluence of the two rivers in 1810.
The community now known as Nine Mile Falls was first developed in 1908 when Spokane industrialist Jay P. Graves built the Nine Mile Dam to provide electricity for his Spokane & Montrose motorized streetcar system. The electricity generated at the dam helped spur the expansion of Spokane's streetcar and interurban railway systems, and in turn helped spur the growth of the greater Spokane area. A village was built at the site of Nine Mile Falls to provide housing for dam workers and their families. The hydro plant and adjoining village were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The historic areas of the hydroelectric complex are jointly managed by Avista Utilities, which operates the dam and power generation, and Riverside State Park.
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