McKenna, Washington
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McKenna 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 Pierce County,
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, United States, located on State Route 507 and the
Nisqually River The Nisqually River is a river in west central Washington in the United States, approximately long. It drains part of the Cascade Range southeast of Tacoma, including the southern slope of Mount Rainier, and empties into the southern end of ...
, east of Yelm. Founded around 1908, McKenna is a former timber
company town A company town is a place where all or most of the stores and housing in the town are owned by the same company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schoo ...
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Yelm History Project
Unincorporated communities in Pierce County, Washington Unincorporated communities in Washington (state) Company towns in Washington (state) {{PierceCountyWA-geo-stub