Willapa Channel
Willapa may refer to: * Willapa people, an Athapaskan-speaking people in Washington, United States * Willapa River, river on the Pacific coast of southwestern Washington, United States * ''General Miles'', a ship * Willapa Electric Company, an electric railway and electric utility company incorporated on August 2, 1913 * Willapa Bay, a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States * Willapa Hills The Willapa Hills is a geologic, physiographic, and geographic region in southwest Washington. When described as a physiographical province, the Willapa Hills are bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Columbia River to the south, the Ol ...

Willapa People
The Willapa or Willoopah, also known as Kwalhioqua / Kwalhiokwa, were a Northern Athapaskan-speaking people in southwestern Washington, United States. Their territory was the valley of the Willapa River and the prairie between the headwaters of the Chehalis and Cowlitz Rivers. Together with the Clatskanie people (also: ''Tlatskanai / Klatskanai'', according to tradition originally part of the "Suwal/Swaal" subgroup) in the upper Nehalem River Valley and along the headwaters of the Klaskanine and Clatskanie River in northwestern Oregon they spoke dialects of the now extinct Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie (Kwalhioqua–Tlatskanai) language, the Willapa dialect was the most divergent. The Kwalhioqua lived north of the lower Columbia River, the Clatskanie (Tlatskanai) to the south, separated by the territory of the Lower Chinook-speaking Shoalwater Bay Chinook (or Willapa Chinook) or Clatsop and the Kathlamet (Cathlamet), who spoke another Chinookan variant. The Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie pe ...
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Willapa River
The Willapa River is a river on the Pacific coast of southwestern Washington in the United States, approximately long. It drains an area of low hills and a coastal plain into Willapa Bay, a large estuary north of the mouth of the Columbia River. The river rises in the Willapa Hills in southeastern Pacific County, approximately west of Chehalis. It flows northwest in a winding course past the small communities of Willapa and Raymond. It enters the northwest end of Willapa Bay at South Bend. Name The name is that of the Willapa people, an Athapaskan-speaking people, now extinct, who occupied the valley of the river and also the prairies between the headwaters of the Chehalis and Cowlitz Rivers. See also *List of rivers of Washington This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Washington. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin. Respective tributaries are indented under each larger stream's name and are ordered downstream to upstream. Fraser River (Britis ...
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General Miles
''General Miles'' was a steamship constructed in 1882 which served in various coastal areas of the states of Oregon and Washington, as well as British Columbia and the territory of Alaska. It was apparently named after US General Nelson A. Miles. Originally a sailing schooner built in 1879, the ''General Miles'' was extensively reconstructed in 1890 and renamed ''Willapa''. In 1903 the name was changed again to ''Bellingham''. After a conversion to diesel power in 1922, the vessel was renamed ''Norco''. The vessel is notable for, among other things, for having been first a sailing vessel from 1879 to 1882, a steamship from 1882 to 1918, a sailing barge from 1919 to 1922, and a motor vessel (diesel-powered) from 1922 to 1950. Construction ''General Miles'' was built in 1882 for the Ilwaco Steam Navigation Company. The vessel was a rebuilt sailing schooner which had been originally built in 1879. The ISN had been organized in 1875 by Lewis A. Loomis, Jacob Kamm and two oth ...
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Willapa Electric Company
The Willapa Electric Company was an electric railway and electric utility company incorporated on August 2, 1913, as successor to the Willapa Harbor Railway, a electric street railway extending from Raymond to South Bend, Washington, in addition to other public utilities in the area: Twin City Electric Company and South Bend Electric Company. The company was to be capitalized at $400,000. The organizers were J S Thornton, R L Fisher and M M Fisher. The company was controlled by the Cities Service Power and Light Company. Rail operations continued until July 1930. In 1939, the company sold part of its electricity transmission and distribution network to the Bonneville Dam. In 1940, the company and Grays Harbor Railway and Light Company Grays or Greys may refer to: Places * Grays Bay, Nunavut, Canada * Grays, Essex, a town in Essex, England ** Grays railway station ** Grays School * Grays, Kent, a hamlet in Kent, England * Rotherfield Greys or Greys, a village in Oxfordshire ...
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Willapa Bay
Willapa Bay () is a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States. The Long Beach Peninsula separates Willapa Bay from the greater expanse of the Pacific Ocean. With over of surface area Willapa Bay is the second-largest riverine estuary on the Pacific coast of the continental United States. Early settlers called the bay Shoalwater Bay and this name is found on old maps and charts of the region. Willapa Bay is fairly shallow: more than half of its surface area lies in the intertidal zone, and half of the volume of water inside it enters and leaves with every tide. The bay is an estuary formed when the Long Beach Peninsula, a long sand spit from the Columbia River to the south, partially enclosed the estuaries of several smaller rivers. It is a ria, which formed after the rise in sea level at the end of the last ice age flooded several small river valleys.
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