Usk is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either hav ...

Pend Oreille County Pend Oreille County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington, along the Canada–United States border, Canada–US border. As of the 2020 United States census, 20 ...

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, United States. Usk is located along the

Pend Oreille River The Pend Oreille River ( ) is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately long, in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington in the United States, as well as southeastern British Columbia in Canada. In its passage through British Columbi ...

southeast of

Cusick Cusick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * David Cusick (c.1780–c.1831), Tuscarora artist and the author of ''David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations'' (1828) *Fred Cusick (1918–2009), American ice ho ...

. Usk has a

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with ZIP code 99180. It is near the

Kalispel Indian Reservation The Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Lower Kalispel people, located in Washington. They are an Indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau. Reservation The Kalispel Reservation, located in ...

. There is also a general store. Usk was named for the

River Usk The River Usk (; cy, Afon Wysg) rises on the northern slopes of the Black Mountain (''y Mynydd Du''), Wales, in the westernmost part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Initially forming the boundary between Carmarthenshire and Powys, it flo ...

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

around 1890.

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Pend Oreille County, Washington Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)