About Camas, Washington

Camas is a city of 26,065 people in Clark County, on the north bank of the Columbia River. French Canadian trappers of the Hudson's Bay Company called the place La Camas for the camas lily, whose bulbs Native people prized as food. As late as 1880 the census found no villages here. That changed in 1883, when Henry L. Pittock, owner of Portland's Oregonian, and his partners formed the La Camas Colony Company to build a paper mill and a town around it. By July they had bought 3,000 acres, and in September they filed a plat of 60 blocks with the mill at its western end.

Pittock put Don Stearns, the advertising manager of his Evening Telegram, in charge on the ground. Stearns built three dams to raise Lacamas Lake, and a sawmill next to the first dam was cutting logs by October 1883. Over 100 Chinese laborers, many fresh from finishing the Northern Pacific Railroad, cleared land and dug an aqueduct over 7,000 feet long, partly through solid rock. The water fell 170 feet to drive the mill, which began making paper in 1885, and the aqueduct still carries water today. Camas incorporated as a city on June 18, 1906.

“LaCamas [was] not intended as a suburban town as [were] the villages around Portland ... but rather as a manufacturing point.”
The Vancouver Independent, 1884
  • The state Grange began hereAeneas McMaster, an immigrant from Canada, opened the town's first general store in July 1883 and soon built the larger Pioneer Store. On September 10, 1889, a group of men gathered on its upper floor and founded the Washington State Grange. Some counties had granges before then, but the statewide group got its start in Camas.
  • First folded napkins, 1950The mill company merged into Crown Columbia Paper in 1905, switched from steam to electricity in 1913 and joined Zellerbach in 1928. Crown Zellerbach grew into the West Coast's largest paper maker, and no mill of its type in the world was bigger than the one in Camas. In World War II it made parts for Navy ships built at the Kaiser Shipyards, and in 1950 it turned out the first folded paper napkins.
  • Lewis and Clark's White Brant IslandThe Corps of Discovery passed Camas heading downriver in November 1805 and came back in late March 1806, camping for several days near the Watlala, a Chinookan band. Lewis and Clark named the island across Camas Slough White Brant Island for its many waterfowl. It's now Lady Island, after a settler named Lady, and digs there have found ceramic artifacts left 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.

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Names on the Camas map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Parker Landing Light
  • Oak Park
  • Green Mountain Open Space
  • Skyridge Open Space

Streets and roads150

  • Northeast Everett Street
  • Southeast Sixth Avenue
  • Southeast Everett Road
  • Lewis and Clark Highway
  • Lewis & Clark Highway
  • Northwest Pacific Rim Boulevard
  • Northwest Pacific Rim Drive
  • Northeast 28th Street
  • Northwest Astor Street
  • Northwest 43rd Avenue
  • Northwest Sierra Drive
  • Northeast Goodwin Road
  • Northeast Third Avenue
  • Northwest Cascade Street
  • Northeast Ingle Road
  • Northwest Sixth Avenue
  • Northwest 18th Avenue
  • Northwest Fargo Street
  • Northeast 202nd Avenue East
  • Northwest 16th Avenue
  • Northwest Lake Road
  • Northeast 232nd Avenue
  • Southwest Sixth Avenue
  • Northwest Parker Street
  • Northwest 38th Avenue
  • Northwest Lacamas Drive
  • Northwest Brady Road
  • Southeast Leadbetter Road
  • Northwest McIntosh Road
  • Northeast Franklin Street
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  • Northwest Camas Meadows Drive
  • Northwest Dahlia Drive
  • East First Avenue
  • Northwest Twelfth Avenue
  • Northwest 44th Avenue
  • Northeast Sixth Avenue
  • Northwest Forest Home Road
  • Northwest Leadbetter Drive
  • Northeast Fourth Avenue
  • Division Street
  • Northwest Tenth Avenue
  • Northwest Sixth Place
  • Southeast Eighth Avenue
  • Northwest 45th Avenue
  • Southeast Brady Road
  • Northeast Third Loop
  • Woodburn Drive
  • Southeast 271st Avenue
  • Northwest Third Avenue
  • Deerfern Street
  • Third Street
  • Sixth Street
  • Southeast Payne Road
  • Northwest Sierra Street
  • Northwest 23rd Avenue
  • Northwest Goodwin Street
  • Northwest 28th Avenue
  • Northwest Fifth Avenue
  • Northeast Garfield Street
  • Southeast 277th Avenue
  • Southeast First Street
  • Northeast Adams Street
  • Northwest Larkspur Street
  • Southeast Third Avenue
  • Northwest Ogden Street
  • Southeast 15th Street
  • Evergreen Highway
  • Northeast Second Avenue
  • Northwest Sierra Lane
  • Northwest Norwood Street
  • Northeast Ione Street
  • Northwest Seventh Avenue
  • Northwest 22nd Avenue
  • Northwest Ninth Avenue
  • Northwest Eighth Avenue
  • Northwest 31st Avenue
  • Northwest Valley Street
  • Northwest Logan Street
  • Southeast Second Avenue
  • Northeast Birch Street
  • Northwest Benton Street
  • Northwest 29th Avenue
  • Northeast Dallas Street
  • Northeast Hayes Street
  • Northwest 17th Avenue
  • Northeast 19th Avenue
  • Northwest Alwxandra Lane
  • Northwest Hood Street
  • Northeast Woodburn Drive
  • Northwest Jasmine Street
  • Northwest Julia Street
  • Northeast Leadbetter Road
  • Northwest Eleventh Avenue
  • Northwest El Rey Drive
  • Northeast 218th Avenue
  • Northwest 30th Avenue
  • Northwest Couch Street
  • Northeast 43rd Avenue
  • Northwest 21st Avenue
  • Northwest Whitman Street
  • Northeast 222nd Avenue
  • Northeast 35th Avenue
  • Northwest Walden Drive
  • Southeast 20th Street
  • Northwest Ilwaco Street
  • Northeast 252nd Avenue
  • Southeast Fifth Street
  • Northeast Ninth Street
  • Northwest Inglewood Street
  • Southeast Eighth Street
  • Northwest Nahcotta Street
  • Northwest Ivy Street
  • Northwest 47th Avenue
  • Northeast Oak Street
  • Northwest Mc Intosh Road
  • Northwest Fisher Creek Drive
  • Northwest 14th Avenue
  • Southeast Seventh Avenue
  • Northwest Kent Street
  • Northwest Sierra Way
  • Northeast Weakly Road
  • Northwest Drake Street
  • Southeast Bybee Road
  • Northwest Knapp Lane
  • Northwest Redwood Lane
  • Northeast 17th Avenue
  • Northwest Jackson Street
  • Northeast Oriole Street
  • Northeast Lake Road
  • Southeast 283rd Avenue
  • North Adams Street
  • North 92nd Avenue
  • Fifth Street
  • Southeast 40th Street
  • Northwest Payne Street
  • Northwest Klickitat Street
  • Northwest 27th Avenue
  • Southeast Crown Road
  • Northwest Fremont Street
  • Northwest Hill Street
  • Northeast Everett Drive
  • Northeast 22nd Avenue
  • Northwest 19th Avenue
  • Northeast Kingbird Street
  • Southeast Polk Street
  • Northeast Tanoak Drive
  • Northwest Paddock Lane
  • Southeast Adams Street
  • Southwest Park Street
  • Southwest Utah Street

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