Malone is an

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and

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(CDP) in

Grays Harbor County Grays Harbor County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 75,636. Its county seat is Montesano, and its largest city is Aberdeen. Grays Harbor County is included in the Aberdeen Micropolitan ...

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, United States. The population was 468 at the 2020 census. Prior to 2010 it was part of the Malone-Porter CDP; Malone and

Porter Porter may refer to: Companies * Porter Airlines, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto * Porter Chemical Company, a defunct U.S. toy manufacturer of chemistry sets * Porter Motor Company, defunct U.S. car manufacturer * H.K. Porter, Inc., a ...

are now separate CDPs. They are located just off

U.S. Route 12 U.S. Route 12 (US 12) is an east–west United States Numbered Highways, United States highway, running from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, for almost . The highway has mostly been superseded by Interstate 90 (I-90) an ...

, southeast of Elma and northwest of Oakville, and along a shortline that is part of the

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Geography

Malone is located in southeastern Grays Harbor County, east of the Chehalis River valley. It is bordered to the southeast by the

CDP and to the southwest by U.S. Route 12, which leads west to

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and southeast to Grand Mound and

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. According to the

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, the Malone CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.06%, are water. Malone is the home of Red's Hop N' Market, a

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that is also the

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's (USPS) first official village post office, a post office located within an existing retail establishment, with limited service and no full-time

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.The new face of the U.S. post office
a September 12, 2011 CNN article The mini-mart's owner is paid $2,000/year by the US Postal Service to sell stamps and shipping supplies and allow the USPS to place mailboxes on-site.

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Grays Harbor County, Washington Census-designated places in Washington (state)