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Kennewick (/ ˈ k ɛ n ə w ɪ k /) is a city in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington.It is located along the southwest bank of the Columbia River, just southeast of the confluence of the Columbia and Yakima rivers and across from the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers.
The Kennewick–Pasco–Richland metropolitan area —colloquially referred to as the Tri-Cities metropolitan area, and officially known as the Kennewick–Richland, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area —is a metropolitan area consisting of Benton and Franklin counties in Washington state, anchored by the cities of Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland ...
Area code. Area code 509. The Tri-Cities are three closely linked cities ( Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland) [2] [3] at the confluence of the Yakima, Snake, and Columbia Rivers in the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington. The cities border one another, making the Tri-Cities seem like one uninterrupted mid-sized city.
Benton County, Washington. / 46.25°N 119.5°W / 46.25; -119.5. Benton County is a county in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 206,873. [1] The county seat is Prosser, [2] and its most populous city is Kennewick. The Columbia River demarcates the county's north, south ...
1969 - Columbia Center Mall opens in Kennewick. 1970 - October: KVEW begins television broadcasts. 1974 - The Tri-City Ports (formerly the Tri-City Atoms and Tri-City Braves) play their final baseball season. 1977 - Control of the Hanford Site passes from the Department of Defense to the Department of Energy.
Location. The Cable Bridge, officially called the Ed Hendler Bridge and sometimes called the Intercity Bridge, spans the Columbia River between Pasco and Kennewick in southeastern Washington as State Route 397. It was constructed in 1978 and replaced the Pasco–Kennewick Bridge, an earlier span built in 1922 and demolished in 1990.
Columbia Park (Tri-Cities) / 46.217°N 119.133°W / 46.217; -119.133. Columbia Park is a public park located in Benton County, Washington, United States. The park comprises the 400-acre (160 ha) Columbia Park East in Kennewick, and the adjacent 50-acre (20 ha) Columbia Park West in Richland. [2] [3] [4] Together, the parks function as a ...
The Columbia River ( Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. [11] The river forms in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.