Kelso: Longview Junction: SR 432 at MP 9.8: Talley Way WB
Tucked along the Cowlitz River in southwest Washington, Kelso is a place whose character is shaped by the waterway and the transport corridors that follow its valley. The city stands near the Cowlitz River’s meeting with the Columbia, in lowland country between the Willapa Hills and the Cascade Range. Kelso is the county seat of Cowlitz County and developed as a timber and river-transport center; it was incorporated in 1884. Interstate 5 and State Route 432 link its commercial and industrial districts with neighboring Longview, while the river remains central to the area’s geography. Downtown Kelso retains a compact civic core within the working landscape of the lower Cowlitz Valley.
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Kelso is best known in Washington as the county seat of Cowlitz County. Set where the Coweeman River joins the Cowlitz River, the city occupies a lowland corridor in southwest Washington between the Cascade foothills and the broad Columbia River valley. Its development was closely tied to logging, rail transport and wood-products manufacturing, industries that shaped communities across the lower Cowlitz basin. The Cowlitz County Historical Museum records the area’s Indigenous, settlement and industrial histories. Kelso adjoins Longview, and together the two cities form a shared urban center. Continue with other webcams from the area to see how this part of southwest Washington connects regionally.
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