Vail 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
Thurston County, 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
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A ...
. The community lies south of
Rainier and
Washington State Route 507.
History
The community was named after William Vail, the original owner of the town site.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company established Vail in 1927 as a
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 ...
, and the population peaked at about 600, but by 1969 only ten houses remained.
A post office was in operation at Vail from 1930 until 1963.
See also
*
List of ghost towns in Washington
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Washington, a state of the United States.
Classification
Barren site
* Sites no longer in existence
* Sites that have been destroyed
* Covered with water
* Reverted to pasture
* May have a few ...
References
Unincorporated communities in Thurston County, Washington
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