Washington
- Names
Washington
WA
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Inhabited by many groups of NW Coast Indians and North American Plateau Indians when European and American fur traders and Protestant missionaries arrived in 18th-19th cen.; N border was agreed upon by Britain (Canada) and the USA in 1846.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Active
Mark Abrahamson (American, born 1944)
Marcy Yukiko Amano (American, born Japan, born 1937)
Guy Anderson (American, 1906-1998)
Kenneth Auvil (American, born 1925)
Fae Heath Batten (American, 1927-1997)
Kenneth L. Callahan (American, 1905-1986)
Francis Celentano (American, 1928-2016)
Larry Clark (American, born 1943)
Cat Clifford (American, active 20th century)
Drake Deknatel (American, 1943-2005)
Mary Dill (American, born 1913)
Robert Feasley (American, born 1926)
Pat Courtney Gold (American and Wasco, born 1939)
Karen Guzak (American, born 1939)
Gaylen Hansen (American, born 1921)
Maury Haseltine (American, 1925-1998)
Bill Hoppe (American, born 1945)
Bob Iyall (American, born 1952)
Joey Kirkpatrick (American, born 1952)
Howard Kottler (American, 1930-1989)
Flora Mace (American, born 1949)
Neil Meitzler (American, 1930-2009)
William Morris (American, born 1957)
Helen O'Toole (Irish, active United States, born 1963)
Craig Pozzi (American, 1942-2004)
Erik Sandgren (American, born 1952)
Angela Swedberg (American and Ojibwa, born 1962)