Blue Canyon 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
Whatcom County
Whatcom County (, ) is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts) of the Canadian province of British Columbia to t ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Washington
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* George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States
* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
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.
History
A post office called Blue Canyon was established in 1892, and remained in operation until 1905. The community took its name from nearby Blue Canyon Mine which was named by Joe Wardner, a miner in the late 1890s.
References
Unincorporated communities in Whatcom County, Washington
Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)
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