Alpha 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 ...

located in

Lewis County, Washington Lewis County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 82,149. The county seat is Chehalis, and its largest city is Centralia. Lewis County comprises the Centralia, WA Micropolitan Stat ...

. The town rests alongside Washington State Route 508, between Cinebar, 3.5 miles away to the east, and Onalaska to the west. A post office existed from 1890 to 1954 but due to its rural setting with little settlement concentration, it did not meet qualifications as a

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, a program used by the

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for unincorporated communities. Alpha appears on the Mayfield Lake U.S. Geological Survey Map. The area has been named Alpha Prairie, Shoestring, and Tilton, with the current iteration chosen by either a local postmaster after the Greek letter or by settler Harold Hanson.

Government and politics

Politics

Alpha has historically voted Republican and

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. As this is an

, there are no defined bounds, and the precinct may be incongruous with the census boundaries. The 2020 election included 16 votes for candidates of the

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, 3 votes for the

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, and 4 votes for

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References

Unincorporated communities in Lewis County, Washington Unincorporated communities in Washington (state) {{LewisCountyWA-geo-stub