Toutle is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Cowlitz County, Washington
Cowlitz County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 110,730. The county seat is Kelso, and its largest city is Longview. The county was formed in April 1854. Its name derives from th ...
.
Etymology
Both the town and
Toutle River, derive their name from a band of the Skillot people of the
Chinookan
The Chinookan languages are a small family of extinct languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although the last known native speaker of any Chinookan language died in 2012, the 2009-2013 American C ...
tribe, the ''Hullooetell''.
Geography
Toutle is located east of Castle Rock along
Washington State Route 504, which is also known as the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway. Toutle is near
Mount St. Helens and the
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which lies at the end of the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway.
Education
The Toutle community is part of the Toutle Lake School District, a
K–12
K–12, from kindergarten to 12th grade, is an English language expression that indicates the range of years of publicly supported primary and secondary education found in the United States and Canada, which is similar to publicly supported sch ...
school district of about 694 students
that serves the communities of Toutle and
Silver Lake, Washington
Silver Lake, sometimes Silverlake, is an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County, Washington, in the southwestern portion of the state. Silver Lake is located east of Castle Rock along Washington State Route 504, which is also known as the ...
.
References
External links
Toutle Lake School District website
Unincorporated communities in Cowlitz County, Washington
Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)
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