Grays Harbor






Map of Grays Harbor


Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located 45 miles (72 km) north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state, in the United States of America. It is a ria, which formed at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels flooded the Chehalis River. The bay is 17 miles (27 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide.[1] The Chehalis River flows into its eastern end, where the city of Aberdeen stands at that river's mouth, on its north bank, with the somewhat smaller city of Hoquiam immediately to its northwest, along the bayshore. Besides the Chehalis, many lesser rivers and streams flow into Grays Harbor, such as Hoquiam River and Humptulips River. A pair of low peninsulas separate it from the Pacific Ocean, except for an opening about two miles (3 km) in width. The northern peninsula, which is largely covered by the community of Ocean Shores, ends in Point Brown. Facing that across the bay-mouth is Point Chehalis, at the end of the southern peninsula upon which stands the town of Westport.


Grays Harbor is named after Captain Robert Gray[1] who discovered and entered it on May 7, 1792 in the course of his fur-trading voyages along the north Pacific coast of North America. Gray named the bay Bullfinch Harbor, but it was afterward named Grays Harbor by Captain George Vancouver, whose contemporaneous explorations of the region—the ships of the two captains had met at sea, only days earlier—were well publicised at the time, while Gray's voyages were not. Grays Harbor was the name that stuck. (A few days later, on May 11 Gray found a navigable channel into the estuary of the Columbia River, and sailed into it, the first white man known to have done so.)[2]


Settlement of the area began in the early 1870s and was largely dependent on the lumber industry. As the forests of the eastern United States depleted, many loggers from the East and the Midwest migrated to the Grays Harbor area, as well as many Scandinavians and Finns from Europe.[3]


Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge is located on 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of intertidal mudflats, salt marsh, and uplands around Hoquiam.


The Daily Washingtonian was a daily newspaper in Grays Harbor founded by Otis M. Moore.




Contents






  • 1 Islands and sandbars


  • 2 Historic events


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Islands and sandbars


Islands include:



  • Grass Island (46°52′34″N 124°05′27″W / 46.87611°N 124.09083°W / 46.87611; -124.09083), near Westport


  • Rennie Island, near Aberdeen, the largest at 225 acres (91 ha)


  • Sand Island, almost in the center of Grays Harbor
    • Goose Island (46°58′38″N 124°04′13″W / 46.97722°N 124.07028°W / 46.97722; -124.07028),[4] near Sand Island



Protection Island (46°56′39″N 124°07′34″W / 46.94417°N 124.12611°W / 46.94417; -124.12611) is listed by USGS,[5] but as of 2018[update] is listed by the City of Ocean Shores as an accreted landform called Damon Point, a 61-acre (25 ha) park attached to Point Brown.[6]


Named bars include Whitcomb Flats (46°54′39″N 124°04′54″W / 46.91083°N 124.08167°W / 46.91083; -124.08167), near Westport.[7] A large unnamed bar or island (46°54′40″N 124°00′25″W / 46.911°N 124.007°W / 46.911; -124.007) also stands off of Markham at the mouth of Johns River.[8]


Sand Island, Goose Island and Whitcomb Flats are included in Washington Natural Areas Program.[9] Johns River Wildlife Area, managed by Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, includes the Markham island.[10]



Historic events




Grays Harbor in 1891 (or earlier?), as depicted in Frances Fuller Victor's Atlantis Arisen.


The schooner Annie Larsen was seized at Grays Harbor on 25 June 1915 by US customs officials, later leading to what was at the time the most expensive trial in US legal history.


During World War II, harbor defenses including searchlights, 12-inch coast defense mortar, 155 mm howitzers and other guns were emplaced around Grays Harbor by Western Defense Command (see 56th Air Defense Artillery Regiment).[11]



References




  1. ^ ab Gulick, Bill (1996). A Traveler's History of Washington. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-87004-371-0..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Flora, Stephenie. "Captain Robert Gray". OregonPioneers.com. Retrieved 2006-12-11.


  3. ^ Gulick 1996, pp. 164-165.


  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Goose Island, Grays Harbor County, Washington


  5. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Protection Island, Grays Harbor County, Washington


  6. ^ Damon Point, City of Ocean Shores, retrieved 2018-05-17


  7. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Whitcomb Flats


  8. ^ USGS 1:24,000 "Westport, Washington" topographic quadrangle, 1995 ed.


  9. ^ List of Natural Area Preserves in Grays Harbor County, Washington Department of Natural Resources, retrieved 2018-05-17


  10. ^ "Johns River Wildlife Area". WDFW Lands (official website). Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife.


  11. ^ Berhow, Mark A. (February 1, 2017), Modern American seacoast defenses – a list of military reservations and concrete gun batteries 1890-1950 (PDF), Coast Defense Study Group



External links


  • Topographic map

Coordinates: 46°57′02″N 124°03′04″W / 46.95056°N 124.05111°W / 46.95056; -124.05111







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