Newman Lake—historically and alternatively known as Moab—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
Spokane County
Spokane County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 539,339, making it the fourth-most populous county in Washington. The largest city and county seat is Spokane, the second largest c ...
,
Washington
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, United States. The
eponymous lake, which took its name from early settler William Newman,
is east-northeast of downtown
Spokane
Spokane ( ) is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south ...
. Newman Lake has a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
with
ZIP code 99025. It is also home to
Ellerport Airport, a private-use airport. As of the summer of 2014, freshwater jellyfish inhabited the lake.
The area was settled in the 1880s and served by the
Northern Pacific Railway
The Northern Pacific Railway was an important American transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the Western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest between 1864 and 1970. It was approved and chartered b ...
, which later ran excursion trains from Spokane. The local post office was renamed from Moab to Newman Lake in the 1930s.
See also
*
Newman Lake (Lake)
References
External links
Original Newman Lake websiteNewman Lake community website
Unincorporated communities in Spokane County, Washington
Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)
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