History
Chehalis began as a cash settlement inside a storage warehouse beside a railroad in 1873, whilst the Northern Pacific Railroad built northbound from either Kalama to Tacoma, & neglected Claquato, so the county courthouse ternary miles to the west. A few settlers decided that, whenever a railroad would non return a county courthouse, a county courthouse must return a railroad. By 1874, the store was added to the storage warehouse, many houses were constructed, & the county courthouse was moved to the freshly personal injury settlement, allowing Claquato little further tha a historical landmark. A recently town was given name Saundersville, for S.S. Saunders, in whose donation land claim it was founded. Around 1879, a title was changed to Chehalis. Chehalis was officially incorporated in November 23, 1883.

Logging presently began in the touching-by forests. Lumber workers of Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, & Scotch-Irish descent arrived, & remained to settle in the neighboring vale. Within 1940, a principal local industries were: shriek, poultry raising, fruit growing, milk condensation, fruit & vegetable packing, brick & tile manufacturing, coal mining, personal home manufacturing, & fern transport. A 1940 people was 4,857. (Inland northwest - The option to the Evergreen State, WPA Our contries Solution Series, Wash. State Historical Society, 1941).

Geography
Chehalis is located at 46°39'36" North, 122°57'48" West (46.659967, -122.963426).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the number front yard of Fourteen.Cinque km² (5.6 mi²). Xiv.Quintuplet kilometre² (Quintet.Captain hicks mi²) of these are l& and none of the vicinity is covered by owning a water system.

A city straddles Interstate 5 at a point almost exactly midway between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. A historic business district & virtually all of the city's agreeableness lie on the east side of the pike, snuggled at the base of a little range of forested hills. On the west side of the motorway come parks, farms, & two or three subdivisions developed in the hills to the west. a little airdrome is placed immediately west of the expressway towards the northern prevent of the city. From either many vantage points in the hills upright west of town, of these potty understand Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens—weather permitting.

A Chehalis River winds its way through a valley where the city lives, & is there joined by a confluent, the Newaukum River. Two lakes come prone to swollen when you took periods of abnormally heavily or even lasting rain, & a lowlands from either a pike westwards come particularly susceptible to inundation.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 7,057 people, 2,671 home, & 1,696 families living in the city. A population density is 485.7/km² (1,259.0/mi²). There are 2,871 housing units at an typical density of 197.6/km² (512.2/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 89.56% White, 1.35% African American, 1.46% Native American, 1.20% Asian, 0.24% Pacific Islander, 3.95% from other races, and 2.24% from two or more races. Heptad.91% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 2,671 home away from which 33.2% use toddlers under a age of Xviii accept the two, 43.8% come married couples living together, 14.4% have a female homeowner sustaining there is no hubby present, & 36.5% come non-families. Xxx.4% of completely menage come manufactured higher of souls & Fifteen.1% stand somebody dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical family size is Deuce.46 & a typical personal size is Troika.06.

In a city the people is spread retired sustaining Twenty-nine.2% under a age of Eighteen, Eleven.4% from either 18 to 2 dozen, Twenty-six.6% from either 25 to 44, Eighteen.9% from either 45 to 64, & Fourteen.0% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 32 years. For each Century females there are 102.Cipher males. For each One c females age Xviii & all over, there are 94.Zero males.

the median income for a house in the city is $33,482, & the median income for a personal is $41,387. Males have a median income of $32,289 versus $24,414 for females. A per capita income for the city is $15,944. Xix.8% of the people & Xvi.0% of families come following a poverty line. Away from a amount people, Twenty-seven.6% of victims under a age of 18 & 8.9% of victims 65 & older come residing following a poverty level.

Politics
Such as a rest of Lewis County, Chehalis is heavy Republican and conservative, although slightly less so than a county as a whole. A outcomes for the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election were as follows:

George W. Bush (Republican) - 1,764 (62.05%) John F. Kerry (Democrat) - 1,028 (36.16%) Ralph Nader (Independent) - 34 (1.20%) More candidates - 17 (Zero.60%)