Espanola, Washington

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|subdivision_name2 = Spokane

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|timezone = Pacific (PST)

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|postal_code = 99022

|area_code = 509

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Espanola is an unincorporated community, in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The current name was adopted in the year 1900. As of 2021 the community of Espanola is little more than a handful of buildings and a grain elevator surrounded by farms.

History

Espanola was the name of one of the 47 townships in Spokane County from the early years of the 20th century{{cite web |title=Historical Townships of Spokane County, Washington |url=https://www.spokanecounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/265/Historical-Township-Map-PDF |website=spokanecounty.org |publisher=Spokane County}} through the middle of the century.{{cite web |title=Spokane County Historical Townships 1943 |url=https://www.spokanecounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/4931/Township-Map-of-Spokane-County-1943-PDF?bidId= |website=spokanecounty.org |publisher=Spokane County |access-date=October 20, 2021}}

A community of Hutterites moved to the Espanola area in 1960, causing some friction with the residents.{{cite news |last1=Youmans |first1=Vance |title=The Promised Land: Spokane's Hutterite Community—A Place Where History Lives |url=https://www.washingtonhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/fall-2000-youmans.pdf |access-date=October 20, 2021 |work=Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History |issue=3 |publisher=Washington State Historical Society |date=Fall 2000|volume=14 }} The Hutterite community is still active in the area as of 2006,{{cite news |last1=Stucke |first1=John |title=Hutterites, like other growers, learn importance of diversification |url=https://www.spokesman.com/galleries/2010/apr/16/spokanes-hutterite-commune/ |access-date=October 20, 2021 |work=The Spokesman-Review |date=August 27, 2006}} but located a few miles to the north beyond U.S. Route 2 near the community of Deep Creek.

Geography

Espanola is located 18 miles west-southwest by road from Downtown Spokane and three miles east of the Spokane–Lincoln county line. The surrounding area is mostly treeless, lightly rolling farmland in the Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau. The city of Medical Lake, the nearest community and closest services to Espanola, is located four miles southeast on Espanola Road. The Washington State Veterans Cemetery{{cite web |title=Washington State Veterans Cemetery |url=https://www.dva.wa.gov/veterans-their-families/cemetery |publisher=Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs |access-date=October 20, 2021}} is located midway between the two communities. The community of Deep Creek is located four miles to the north. Fairchild Air Force Base is located two miles to the east of Espanola.

A BNSF Railway track, the Columbia River Subdivision passes through Espanola. Surface roads include Manila Road, the road through the community, and Espanola Road, which connects the settlement to the outside world. U.S. Route 2 connects to Espanola Road about three miles north and State Route 902 in Medical Lake.

Demographics

{{US Census population|align=left

|1910=399

|1920=318

|1930=1740

|1940=2332

|1950=195

|estyear= 2015

|estimate= 20

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|footnote=U.S. Census{{cite web

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32pQAAAAYAAJ&dq=Espanola+Twp&pg=SA47-PA12

|title=Census of Population

|author=United States Census Bureau

|year=1952

|accessdate=September 4, 2017}}

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References

Category:Former census-designated places in Washington (state)