About Omak, Washington

Omak is a city of 4,860 people in Okanogan County, on the Okanogan River. It began with a quarrel over a name. Joseph Irwin Pogue, an Ohio-born doctor who gave up medicine to farm, dug a ditch in 1888 to bring Salmon Creek water to his land. Nearby Alma, founded in 1886, renamed itself Pogue in 1905 to thank him, but in 1907 its voters chose the name Okanogan instead. The angry doctor hired surveyor Ben F. Ross to lay out a rival town about 5 miles north.

That same year Ross split 20 acres of his own alfalfa field into 25 lots. Buyers snapped them up so quickly that each was limited to two, except banker L. L. Week, who got four for a bank and a printing office. The town took its name from the Salishan word "omache," for "good medicine" or "plenty." Water from the Okanogan Irrigation Project, completed in 1910, let settlers plant apples, peaches, plums and apricots, and Omak was incorporated on February 11, 1911.

“The new town of Omak, viewed casually by the editor from the forward deck of his buggy last Friday, made a good impression. Things are moving there, good big buildings are already up and more a-buildin'. And, dear me, a bank that has temporary offices in a dry goods box, with over $12,000 deposits, talks for the town louder than a megaphone”
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  • The Stampede since 1933Two cattlemen started the Omak Stampede rodeo in 1933. By 1935 they had added a second event, the World Famous Suicide Race, where riders send their horses plunging down a steep hill, through the Okanogan River and up the bank on the far side. The race has faced protests and lawsuits, but it still runs on the second weekend of August.
  • Omak's first school, 1907Pogue's school was too far away for Omak children, so in the fall of 1907 the new town opened a subscription school for 10 pupils in a 12-foot by 16-foot building, taught by Miss Ethel Reed. In 1908 classes moved to Stoddard Hall, where the post office stands now, and in 1910 the Central School went up on land Ben Ross gave. Sisters Voy and Beryl Bailey became the first high school graduates in 1912.
  • Losing the county seat, 1913In 1913 Omak and Okanogan both wanted to take the county seat from Conconully, which required at least 60 percent of the vote. Omak, which had just banned alcohol, called its neighbor a town of hooligans. Okanogan talked Omak into a head-to-head elimination vote, with the loser dropping out. Okanogan won by nearly two to one and has held the county seat ever since.
  • The Chronicle, since 1910Clarence P. Scates quit as editor of the Conconully Record to start a paper of his own. He printed the first Omak Chronicle on May 20, 1910, and three years later it grew into the Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle, the weekly the city still reads.

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Names on the Omak map

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Places and landmarks2

  • Omak City Hall
  • Eastside Park

Streets and roads76

  • Okoma Drive
  • Main Street North
  • Riverside Drive
  • Omak Avenue
  • Locust Street North
  • Jasmine Street
  • Dayton Street
  • Engh Road
  • Ross Canyon Road
  • Robinson Canyon Road
  • Copple Road
  • Sand Flat Road
  • Airport Road
  • Apple Avenue West
  • Koala Drive
  • Cherokee Road
  • Jackson Street
  • Dewberry Avenue East
  • Ferry Street
  • Omak River Road
  • Ash Street South
  • Emery Street
  • Old Riverside Highway
  • Cedar Street South
  • Eighth Avenue East
  • West Third Street
  • Shumway Road
  • Birch Street South
  • Benton Street
  • Ash Street North
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  • Fourth Avenue North
  • Columbia Street
  • Asotin Street
  • Omache Drive
  • Mower Road
  • Kenwood Street
  • Quince Street
  • Lindell Road
  • South Fir Street
  • Sunrise Drive
  • Oak Street
  • Index Street
  • Lime Avenue
  • Ridge Place
  • Fourth Avenue
  • Granite Street South
  • Bartlett Avenue West
  • Bartlett Avenue East
  • Grape Avenue East
  • Oak Street North
  • Fifth Avenue East
  • Second Avenue West
  • Fifth Avenue West
  • Edmonds Street South
  • Pine Street
  • Hanford Street
  • The Springs Road
  • West Parkway Street
  • Fig Avenue East
  • Wildwood Drive
  • Kermel Road
  • Quassia Street
  • Senna Street
  • Hopfer Road
  • High Drive
  • Main Street South
  • Ironwood Street
  • Garfield Street
  • Ivy Street South
  • Haussler Road
  • Fourth Avenue West
  • First Avenue West
  • Hillcrest Circle Drive
  • East Ridge Drive
  • Edmonds Street
  • Cypress Avenue

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