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  Lewis - History
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Parents > United States > Washington > WA Counties > Lewis  
Websitehttps://lewiscountywa.gov/
Established December 19, 1845
Disbanded Still Active
Last ModifiedRP March 04, 2020 06:32am
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January 31, 1888 -


LEWIS gained from CHEHALIS (now GRAYS HARBOR). (Wash. Terr. Laws 1887-1888, 11th biennial sess., p. 73)

November 13, 1879 - January 31, 1888


LEWIS gained from SKAMANIA, WAHKIAKUM, and YAKIMA; lost to PACIFIC. (Wash. Terr. Laws 1879, 7th biennial sess., pp. 213-214)

December 02, 1869 - November 13, 1879


LEWIS gained from CHEHALIS (now GRAYS HARBOR). (Wash. Terr. Laws 1869, 2d biennial sess., p. 295)

January 31, 1867 - December 02, 1869


LEWIS gained from THURSTON; lost to CHEHALIS (now GRAYS HARBOR), PACIFIC, and WAHKIAKUM.

January 05, 1865 - January 31, 1867


LEWIS lost to PIERCE. (Wash. Terr. Laws 1864-1865, 12th sess., pp. 49-50)

January 26, 1861 - January 05, 1865


LEWIS gained from PIERCE exchanged with THURSTON. (Wash. Terr. Laws 1860, 8th sess., p. 33)

January 25, 1860 - January 26, 1861


LEWIS lost to CHEHALIS (now GRAYS HARBOR). (Wash. Terr. Laws 1859, 7th sess., p. 444)

January 26, 1855 - January 25, 1860


LEWIS lost to COWLITZ. (Wash. Terr. Laws 1854, 2d sess., p. 36)

January 23, 1855 - January 26, 1855


LEWIS lost to CLARKE. (Wash. Terr. Laws 1854, 2d sess., p. 39)

April 21, 1854 - January 23, 1855


LEWIS lost to creation of COWLITZ. (Wash. Terr. Laws 1854, 1st sess., p. 471)

April 15, 1854 - April 21, 1854


LEWIS gained from PACIFIC lost to creation of CHEHALIS (now GRAYS HARBOR).

March 09, 1854 - April 14, 1854


LEWIS lost to creation of SKAMANIA lost to CLARKE. (Wash. Terr. Laws 1854, 1st sess., p. 473)

February 01, 1853 - March 09, 1854


LEWIS gained from THURSTON, exchanged with CLARK. (Ore. Terr. Special Laws, 1852, 4th reg. sess., p. 40)

January 17, 1852 - February 01, 1853


LEWIS exchanged with CLARK when eastern boundary of LEWIS defined. (Ore. Terr. Laws 1851, 3rd reg. sess., p. 30)

January 12, 1852 - January 17, 1852


LEWIS lost to creation of THURSTON. (Ore. Terr. Laws 1851, 3rd reg. sess., p. 19)

February 03, 1851 - January 12, 1852


LEWIS lost to creation of PACIFIC. (Ore. Terr. Laws 1850, 2nd sess., p. 38)

June 15, 1846 - February 03, 1851


LEWIS lost to British North America when the 1846 Oregon Boundary Treaty between the U.S. & Great Britain established the northern boundary of Oregon Terr. at 49 deg N lat. LEWIS included the San Juan Islands jointly claimed by the U.S. & Gr.Br. (Van Zandt, p. 18)

December 21, 1845 - June 15, 1846


LEWIS created by Oregon Territory from VANCOUVER DISTRICT (now CLARK). (Ore. Terr. Laws, general and local, 1843-1849, p. 43)

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