Spangle: US 195 at MP 81.6
Tucked into the rolling wheat country of the Palouse, Spangle is a place whose character is shaped by dryland farming and the north–south corridor of U.S. Route 195. The settlement lies in Spokane County, southwest of Spokane, amid open fields and low, rounded hills formed from deep deposits of windblown silt. These fertile loess soils underpin the Palouse’s long-established grain agriculture, while state highways and county roads connect scattered farms with the regional city. Incorporated in 1888, Spangle remains a small community rather than a suburban district. U.S. 195 continues south through the Palouse toward Idaho, giving this rural junction a practical role in regional travel.
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Spangle combines the quiet scale of a farming town with the through-route character of a community on U.S. Route 195, reflecting its position in southern Spokane County. Latah Creek runs near the town in eastern Washington, where rolling agricultural ground marks the transition toward the Palouse. Incorporated in 1888, Spangle developed during the settlement of the region’s wheat-growing country and retains a compact civic core rather than the spread of nearby Spokane. Its setting reveals a rural side of Washington east of the Cascades. Browse other webcams across eastern Washington to place this small-town setting in a wider geographic context.
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