About Quincy, Washington

Quincy is a city of 7,543 people in Grant County, in the Big Bend Country of Central Washington. It began in 1892 as a siding on the Great Northern Railway, a spot where trains could pass each other, marked only by a name on a post, and it took its name from Quincy, Illinois. Few people lived there until 1901, when homesteaders began filing land claims. One of them was John Franklin Black, whose 160 acres lie under the town today.

Ruel W. Williams became the first postmaster on February 15, 1902, and two weeks later Richard Coleman platted the original town. Coleman ran a hotel, Louis Mullerleile sold goods from a tent, and that fall Williams built the 40-room Central Hotel with the post office inside. Quincy incorporated on March 27, 1907, but it only became a farming and food-processing center after water from the Grand Coulee Dam reached it in 1952 and made the dry land around it some of the country's best farmland.

“A few weeks ago Quincy, Washington, was simply an unused sidetrack on the Great Northern, in the desert. Now, however, the plain is taking on the appearance of a village and people are coming in and breaking up the bunch grass, preparatory to growing crops.”
The Big Bend Chief, 1902
  • School in a real-estate officeIn 1902 John Black lent his 16-by-24-foot real-estate office, on the north side of the tracks, for Quincy's first school session. Solomon V. Frazier, who had fought in the Spanish American War, taught the first month to nineteen students. The town put up its first school building the next year, in 1903.
  • Water at 198 feetThe first settlers hauled their water for miles across the desert. In 1902 Millard Fidd Cochran drilled the first well in town and finally struck water 198 feet down. His well kept the west side of Quincy supplied for years, and the price of land shot up.
  • The cattleman called Lord BlytheThomas Smart Blythe, a Scottish bachelor educated at Oxford, came to Eastern Washington in 1884 and made a fortune raising cattle on land between the Columbia River and Moses Lake. Neighbors called him "Lord Blythe" for his tailored clothes and his house full of servants. He built the area's first working irrigation system and drove one of its first automobiles, but his fortune was gone by the time he died in 1930.
  • Data centers since 2007Cheap hydroelectric power from the dams drew Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell and Intuit to build large data centers around Quincy starting in 2007. Microsoft began its Columbia Data Center in 2006 and has enlarged it several times since.
  • Farmer-Consumer Awareness DayOn the second Saturday of each September, Quincy celebrates the crops that the irrigation water made possible. For a month ahead, signs along the roads into town show local crops and the foods made from them. On the day itself, school floats and farm machinery roll through town in a parade, followed by a tractor pull, a produce sale, farm and geology tours and the Farm-to-Market fun run.

Find your street

Names on the Quincy 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 landmarks1

  • Lauzier Park

Streets and roads51

  • Central Avenue South
  • Highway 28 West
  • Road 10 Northwest
  • Highway 281 North
  • Central Avenue
  • Columbia Way
  • Division Street West
  • Sixth Avenue Northeast
  • Canal Svc Road
  • Marginal Way
  • Road 11 Northwest
  • Road 9 Northwest
  • 13th Avenue Southwest
  • Division Street East
  • Third Avenue Southwest
  • Seventh Avenue Southwest
  • First Avenue Southeast
  • Road South Northwest
  • Second Avenue Southeast
  • First Avenue Southwest
  • Central Avenue North
  • Third Avenue Northeast
  • Fourth Avenue Southeast
  • O&m Road
  • Third Avenue Southeast
  • North Street Southwest
  • Tenth Avenue Southwest
  • Second Avenue Southwest
  • First Avenue Northeast
  • Farm Road
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  • Road 10.5 Northwest
  • Sixth Avenue Southeast
  • East Street Northeast
  • Monument Hill Road Northwest
  • Rocky Avenue Northeast
  • Eighth Avenue Southeast
  • Birch Street Southwest
  • Eighth Avenue Northeast
  • Country Avenue Northeast
  • South Street Southwest
  • Yahoo Way
  • Fifth Avenue Southeast
  • Hilltop Avenue Northeast
  • Willow Avenue Northeast
  • North Street Southeast
  • Mountain View Drive
  • East Street Southeast
  • Ninth Avenue Southwest
  • Twelth Avenue Southwest
  • Ninth Avenue Northeast
  • Parkway Drive

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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