Ariel () is an

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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 the ...

. Ariel is located northeast of the city of

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along

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, situated north of the Lewis River and on the northwest bank of

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. The Ariel community is part of the

Woodland School District Woodland Public Schools (WPS) or Woodland School District #404 (WSD) is a school district headquartered in Woodland, Washington. It includes Woodland and Cougar The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large Felidae, cat native to the America ...

, a

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school district of about 2,200 students.

Geography

Ariel is located at (45.9567789, -122.5709345).

Culture

D. B. Cooper Days

Every year since 2011 the

D. B. Cooper D. B. Cooper is a media epithet for an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft operated by Northwest Orient Airlines, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portla ...

Days are held at the Ariel Store and Tavern. The festival is a celebration of the skyjacking case of Dan Cooper, who hijacked a

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over the

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with US$200,000 on November 24, 1971.

External links

Woodland Public Schools website

References

Unincorporated communities in Cowlitz County, Washington Unincorporated communities in Washington (state) {{CowlitzCountyWA-geo-stub