About Selah, Washington

Selah is a city of 8,153 people in Yakima County, just north of Yakima, above the spot where the Naches River joins the Yakima. Its name comes from an Indian word for still or smooth water. Alfred Henson became its first settler in 1865, staking a claim on land the Elks Golf and Country Club would later occupy, and after Yakima County was formed in 1867 he was elected one of its commissioners.

A real town began in 1907, when two Swedish immigrants, Gus Remington and Olaf Larson, opened the Selah Trading Company and followed it with a feed store and a hotel. Fire destroyed most of the businesses in 1908, so the partners built the Selah Mercantile Company, and Remington advertised in Swedish papers in the Midwest to draw new farmers. By 1912 Selah had a newspaper, a bank, a drug store, a meat market and a livery stable.

“After riots broke out in the Yakima Valley between farmers and striking workers, the State Patrol and the National Guard were called in to protect local crops, and it was not uncommon to see machinegun-toting guardsmen patrolling Selah's streets.”
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  • Ditches that greened the valleyIn 1880 George Taylor, who had homesteaded here in 1866, dug a small ditch to carry Yakima River water into the Selah Valley, and farmers began trading sheep and cattle for hops, orchards and alfalfa. In 1888 two men, B. F. Young and John Stone, organized the Selah Ditch Company and dug a bigger canal. By 1895 more landowners picked Selah than Wenas, and dry sage had turned to green fields.
  • Incorporated March 17, 1919In 1918 Selah had nearly 200 people, but state law required 300 before a town could incorporate. Boosters waited for the fall harvest, signed up orchard and alfalfa workers, and counted 310 residents. After a caucus in February 1919, all 63 voters at the March election said yes, and on March 17, 1919, the county commissioners made Selah a municipality of the fourth class.
  • Yakima County's first court caseWilliam McCallister, the second settler in Selah, arrived a few months after Henson and never got along with him. When McCallister threatened to kill Henson, the dispute became the first court case in Yakima County history. Nobody knows how it went, because the records burned with the county courthouse in 1882.
  • Community Day since 1926Selah opened a new high school in 1926 with 154 students, and the opening started the town's first Community Day. At the end of the school year, floats, autos covered in flowers and children on decorated bikes paraded to the school grounds for a picnic. Selah still holds a town-wide summer gathering.
  • The Apple Juice CapitalApple juice took hold in Selah during the Great Depression, when a small processing plant opened and kept growing through the 1950s. The grower-owned Tree Top co-operative took it over in 1960 and keeps its headquarters and two processing plants in town. A brewery that opened after Prohibition ended in 1933 also made Selah Springs beer popular in Central Washington until it closed in the 1950s.

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Names on the Selah 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 landmarks2

  • Carlon Park
  • River Ridge Golf Course

Streets and roads119

  • South First Street
  • North Wenas Road
  • Selah Road
  • North Wenas Avenue
  • West Naches Avenue
  • Hillcrest Drive
  • North First Street
  • East Naches Avenue
  • West Goodlander Road
  • North Fourth Street
  • Pleasant Hill Road
  • Lookout Point Road
  • Crusher Canyon Road
  • West Fremont Avenue
  • Pleasant Hill
  • Driscoll Road
  • West Cherry Avenue
  • North Tenth Street
  • Valleyview Avenue
  • South Third Street
  • South Tenth Street
  • Lookout Point Drive
  • Speyers Road
  • West Orchard Avenue
  • Heritage Hills Drive
  • South Fifth Street
  • East Goodlander Road
  • West Pear Avenue
  • North Park Drive
  • South Rushmore Road
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  • North 13th Street
  • Southern Avenue
  • West Yakima Avenue
  • Riverview Avenue
  • Cedar Lane
  • North Eleventh Street
  • West Bartlett Avenue
  • Terry Lane
  • Golf Course Road
  • North 14th Street
  • Lyle Loop
  • East Home Avenue
  • West Home Avenue
  • Selah Loop Road
  • East Bartlett Avenue
  • Palmer Drive
  • West First Avenue
  • Crestview Drive
  • North Railroad Avenue
  • Lacey Avenue
  • West Selah Avenue
  • South Park Drive
  • North Third Street
  • Heritage Hills Lane
  • Goodlander Circle
  • Pleasant Avenue
  • North Fifth Street
  • Valhalla Loop
  • North 16th Street
  • Goodlander Drive
  • East First Avenue
  • Dwinell Drive
  • Hillview Avenue
  • Jessica Drive
  • East Third Avenue
  • Ridgeview Avenue
  • Brader
  • Terrace Drive
  • Anchor Loop
  • Harris Avenue
  • Herlou Drive
  • Merinda Drive
  • Mayer Court
  • Jamie Drive
  • East Second Avenue
  • South Sixth Street
  • Rinda Court
  • East Orchard Avenue
  • North Twelfth Street
  • Fassett Road
  • Wernex Loop Road
  • North Ninth Street
  • South Fourth Street
  • Apple Way
  • East Fremont Avenue
  • South Seventh Street
  • North Second Street
  • South Railroad Avenue
  • West Seventh Avenue
  • West Sixth Avenue
  • West Fifth Avenue
  • West Park Avenue
  • 17th Street
  • Highland Court
  • South Second Street
  • Heritage Hills Court
  • Sherlyn Drive
  • Viking Drive
  • Lyle Avenue
  • Sage Avenue
  • Lynwood Lane
  • Larson Drive
  • Maru Avenue
  • North 18th Street
  • Orchard
  • View Crest Court
  • Hovde Lane
  • Blitz Lane
  • West Naches
  • South Fourth Saint Lp
  • Eleventh Avenue East
  • Braeburn Court
  • Sunrise Place
  • Fruitspur Drive
  • Heritage Hills Place
  • Sunway Drive
  • Enterprise Drive
  • East Fifth Street
  • Hegel Court

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