About Grandview, Washington

Grandview is a city of 10,907 people in Yakima County, in Washington's Yakima Valley. Colonel H. D. Cock, a veteran of the Indian wars who became Yakima's first marshal, was living near the future town site by the mid-1860s. Decades later two small farm settlements grew up, one near today's Bethany Road and one near Euclid Street, and in 1893 the Sunnyside Canal brought water to the Euclid families, who had been hauling it from the Yakima River.

In 1905 the Northern Pacific picked the site as the end of its Sunnyside branch. Men from the railway and the Granger Land Company who came to look it over admired the view on a clear day, with Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams and nearby Snipes Mountain in sight, and that view gave the town its name. The company platted lots in 1906 and sold them for $100 to $400, and the two settlements joined to form the town. By May, Mrs. A. E. Sykes had put up the first building on Division Street, living in the back, renting rooms upstairs and running the post office in front.

“I do not mean to be uncharitable concerning the country across the line, but having seen both localities it is mystifying to me why a good American citizen will swear allegiance to the English government to take up a homestead in Canada when he can make a better living on a ten-acre tract in the Yakima valley and enjoy some of the comforts of life as he goes through the seasons”
John Scott Mills, Sunset magazine, 1912
  • The first train in 1911The Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company began laying track and building a depot in the middle of Grandview in 1907, on a line running from Walla Walla to Yakima. The first train came through on March 22, 1911. The railroad tied the valley's small towns together, and by 1919 historian William Denison Lyman described the stretch from Parker Bottom to Grandview as almost one long village of stations and houses.
  • Voted in, and voted dryResidents voted 37 to three on September 18, 1909, to incorporate, and John Monroe became the first mayor. Earlier, while Grandview was still only a townsite, some residents had petitioned for a saloon. When the question of selling alcohol went to the voters in 1910, it lost 50 to 12, and the town's 1927 history said the petitioners were amazed.
  • Jackrabbits to richesWhen the federal Yakima Project began, businessmen laid out the Grandview Orchard Tracts, about 1,000 acres watered by gravity. Before the land was fully planted, settlers fought a war on jack rabbits, killing them by the thousands with poison, traps, guns and clubs. By 1921 the editor of the Grandview Herald was telling a jackrabbits-to-riches story: $20 million in crops from an estimated $1.25 million spent on the project.
  • The Herald since 1909The Grandview Herald, a weekly, printed its first issue on March 4, 1909, and it was still publishing online in 2013. In 1919 Lyman singled it out as a "bright, active, well-conducted" paper. The Grandview Herald Building joined the National Register in 1987.
  • Growth in wartimeA 1944 census counted 1,863 people, enough to make Grandview a third-class city instead of the fourth-class town it began as. Part of the growth came from families forced out of Hanford and White Bluffs, in Benton County, when the government built the Hanford Engineering Works for the atomic bomb. The town formed a housing authority that year, and by 1950 it had 2,497 people.

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Names on the Grandview 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 landmarks3

  • Grandview City Hall
  • Blacks Corner
  • Byron Wildlife Area

Streets and roads115

  • Inland Empire Highway
  • West Fifth Street
  • East Old Prosser Road
  • Highland Road
  • Division Street
  • South Elm Street
  • Elm Avenue
  • Forsell Roaad
  • West Wine Country Road
  • West Main Street
  • North Wilson Highway
  • North Elm Street
  • East Bonnieview Road
  • Cemetary Road
  • Euclid Street
  • Birch Avenue
  • North County Line Road
  • South Euclid Road
  • Cherry Drive
  • Olmstead Road
  • Pecan Road
  • Wardall Road
  • Yakima Valley Highway
  • West Second Street
  • Puterbaugh Road
  • Grandridge Road
  • Forsell Road
  • East Main Street
  • Bethany Road
  • Stover Road
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  • North Euclid Street
  • West Fourth Street
  • Hillcrest Road
  • East Stover Road
  • West Third Street
  • Stassen Way
  • Wallace Way
  • Forrest Road
  • Woodall Road
  • East Third Street
  • East Fourth Street
  • Hillcrest Street
  • Ogle Road
  • North Fourth Street
  • Cherry Lane
  • Velma Avenue
  • Velma Street
  • Nicka Road
  • Rocky Ford Road
  • Apricot Road
  • Butternut Road
  • Dump Road
  • McCreadie Road
  • Wilson Highway
  • Higgins Way
  • King Street
  • Cornell Road
  • Appleway Road
  • Westridge Drive
  • North Fifth Street
  • Hill Drive
  • Klock Road
  • West King Street
  • Wyant Lane
  • Ash Street
  • Cedar Street
  • Opal Street
  • Pleasant Avenue
  • Deangela Drive
  • Fir Street
  • Highland Drive
  • East Elm Street
  • Lindsey Lane
  • Wolfe Lane
  • Pete Street
  • Cliff Street
  • East Fifth Street
  • Victoria Circle
  • Carriage Square Drive
  • Euclid Road
  • Old Prosser Highway
  • North Euclid Road
  • Hickory Road
  • Rainier Street
  • Nicka Street
  • Crescent Drive
  • Avenue East
  • North Willoughby Road
  • Broadway
  • North Third Street
  • Acoma Drive
  • Larson Street
  • Viall Road
  • Grant Court
  • Eberle Place
  • Suzie Street
  • East Second Street
  • Adams Street
  • Meadowlark Drive
  • Young Street
  • Apache Drive
  • Ela Loop
  • Bridgeview Road
  • Sunset Lane
  • South Division Street
  • South Euclid Street
  • Conestoga Drive
  • Douglas Avenue
  • Queen Street
  • Harrison Street
  • Jessica Court
  • Munson Court
  • Nealy Road
  • Sherilyn Court
  • Carriage Court

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