Grays Harbor County
Founded: April 14, 1854 |
Grays Harbor County
Sheriff's Office
100 West Broadway, Suite
3
Montesano, WA 98563
Phone: 360.249.3711
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Grays Harbor County is named after Grays Harbor, a
large estuarine bay near its southwestern corner. This bay,
in turn, is named after Captain Robert Gray who discovered
and entered it on May 7, 1792. As of 2007, the estimated population
was 70,800. The county seat is at Montesano, and its largest
city is Aberdeen.
The county is Grays Harbor County was formed out of Thurston
County on April 14, 1854. Originally named Chehalis County,
it took its present name in 1915.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total
area of 2,224 square miles, of which, 1,917 square miles of
it is land and 308 square miles of it (13.83%) is water. The
population density is 36 per square mile.
| Principal Communities: |
- Aberdeen
- Cosmopolis
- Elma
- Grayland
- Hoquiam
- Humptulips
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- McCleary
- Moclips
- Montesano (County Seat)
- Ocean City
- Ocean Shores
- Westport
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