Valleyford, Washington
Unincorporated community in Spokane County · Not an incorporated municipality
About Valleyford
Valleyford is an unincorporated community in Spokane County, Washington, United States. Valleyford has a post office with ZIP code 99036. Valleyford was listed to have a population of 2,913 according to the 2010 United States census.
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How Valleyford is governed
Valleyford 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 and its elected officials. The chart below is a generic template; readers can correct it if Valleyford does have local officials.
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Residents of Valleyford
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The city's chief elected official. Presides over the executive branch, proposes the budget and represents the city.
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Police Chief
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The budget, taxes, and city accounts.
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City Clerk
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City Attorney
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History
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Coeur d'Alene people knew the Valleyford area for its bountiful camas harvests.
European settlement began in the second half of the 1800s when the Mullan Road began bringing settlers into the Inland Northwest. The road split into two branches at Cataldo Mission in present day Idaho, with one branch taking a northern route around Lake Coeur d'Alene and the other taking a southern route. Valleyford was located near where the two branches came back together.
Another transportation breakthrough for the region provided a boon for settlement in Valleyford when the Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad, an electrified, interurban railway, came through the community in 1908. The arrival of the railway connected the community with the region's center of population in Spokane, as well as other small towns around the Palouse. It also brought electricity to the community.
Soon after the arrival of the railroad, Valleyford began to grow and community officials expected that growth to continue. The town was platted for more growth than would end up occurring, however, as the community's fortunes took a big hit during the Great Depression and never recovered.
A post office called Valleyford has been in operation since 1907. The origin of the name Valleyford is obscure.
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