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A Little About Pasco Washington
Pasco is a city located in Franklin County, in the state of Washington, USA. Pasco is the county seat of Franklin County.

Pasco one of three cities that make up the Tri-Cities region of the state of Washington; a mid-sized metropolitan area of approximately 200,000 people that also includes the cities of Kennewick and Richland.

The April 1, 2006 population of Pasco was estimated by the Washington State Office of Financial Management at 46,494. Pasco is, in terms of net percentage growth, the fastest-growing city in the state of Washington, and has been for the past several years.

History of Pasco Washington
On October 16, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in the Pasco area, at a site now commemorated by Sacagawea State Park. The area was frequented by fur trappers and gold traders. In the 1880s, the Northern Pacific Railway was built near the Columbia River, bringing many settlers to the area. Pasco was officially incorporated on September 3, 1891. It was named by Virgil Bogue, a construction engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway, after Cerro de Pasco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, where he had helped build a railroad. In its early years, it was a small railroad town, but the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam in 1941 brought irrigation and agriculture to the area, as well as determining the site of a nuclear power plant at the nearby Hanford Site.

With the Hanford Site and related Manhattan Project in the 1950s, the entire Tri-Cities area grew rapidly. However, most of the population influx resided in Richland and Kennewick as Pasco remained primarily driven by the agricultural industry. After the end of World War II, the entire region went through several "boom" and "bust" periods, cycling approximately every 10 years and heavily based on available government funding for Hanford-related work. Due to its relatively higher poverty level, Pasco was seen by many as the least desirable of the three cities and over time became the smallest in terms of population. Farming continued to be the economic base for most of the city.

In the late 1990s, for seeing another Hanford-related boom period, several developers purchased large farm circles in Pasco for residential and commercial development. Since that time, Pasco has undergone a transformation that has not only seen its population overtake the neighboring city of Richland, but also has resulted in growth in the city's retail and tourism industries. Recently incorporated land on the West side of the city has exploded into new housing tracts, apartments, and shopping centers. This area of the city has become referred to locally as "West Pasco", distinguishing it from the older area of town to the East. In addition to an influx of new residents to the region, many residents of the Tri-Cities have moved from Richland and Kennewick to West Pasco due to its central location, and virtually all-new housing and business. With the Tri-Cities population appearing to reach a point of critical mass, the growth in West Pasco will likely continue into the foreseeable future.

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