Editing Yakima, Washington (section)

==History==
The [[Yakama Nation|Yakama]] people were the first known inhabitants of the Yakima Valley. In 1805, the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] came to the area and encountered abundant wildlife and rich soil, prompting the settlement of homesteaders.<ref>{{cite web |title=City of Yakima History |publisher=City of Yakima |url=http://www.ci.yakima.wa.us/tour/history/ |access-date=December 28, 2006 |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928072437/http://www.ci.yakima.wa.us/tour/history/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> A [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[List of Spanish missions|Mission]] was established in [[Ahtanum, Washington|Ahtanum]], southwest of present-day Yakima, in 1847.<ref>{{cite web |title=St. Joseph's Mission, Ahtanum Valley, Tampico vicinity, Yakima County, WA |publisher=[[Historic American Buildings Survey]]/[[Historic American Engineering Record]] |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=wa/wa0100/wa0127/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=1&itemLink=D?hh:24:./temp/~pp_uYcR:: |access-date=January 11, 2007 |archive-date=June 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629215120/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=wa%2Fwa0100%2Fwa0127%2Fdata%2Fhhdatapage.db&recNum=1&itemLink=D%3Fhh%3A24%3A.%2Ftemp%2F~pp_uYcR%3A%3A |url-status=live }}</ref> The arrival of settlers and their conflicts with the natives resulted in the [[Yakima War]]. The U.S. Army established [[Fort Simcoe]] in 1856 near present-day White Swan as a response to the uprising. The Yakamas were defeated and forced to relocate to the [[Yakama Indian Reservation]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/it-happened-here-treaty-of-took-land-created-the-yakama/article_99aed30c-49af-11e7-8f10-9f5f13ca79e6.html |title=It Happened Here: Treaty of 1855 took land, created the Yakama Nation |last=Meyers |first=Donald W. |work=Yakima Herald-Republic |date=June 4, 2017 |language=en |access-date=February 6, 2020 |archive-date=February 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206045303/https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/it-happened-here-treaty-of-took-land-created-the-yakama/article_99aed30c-49af-11e7-8f10-9f5f13ca79e6.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1588.html |title=Yakama Indian Nation |website=www.u-s-history.com |language=en |access-date=February 6, 2020 |archive-date=February 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206045302/https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1588.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Yakima County was created in 1865. When bypassed by the [[Northern Pacific Railway|Northern Pacific Railroad]] in December 1884, over 100 buildings were moved with rollers and horse teams to the nearby site of the depot. The new city was dubbed North Yakima and was officially incorporated and named the county seat on January 27, 1886. The name was changed to Yakima in 1918. [[Union Gap, Washington|Union Gap]] was the new name given to the original site of Yakima.<ref name="HistoryLink">{{cite web |last=Kershner |first=Jim |date=October 16, 2009 |title=Yakima — Thumbnail History |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/9187 |work=[[HistoryLink]] |access-date=March 1, 2019 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302210505/https://www.historylink.org/File/9187 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On May 18, 1980, the [[1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens|eruption]] of [[Mount St. Helens]] caused a large amount of [[volcanic ash]] to fall on the Yakima area. Visibility was reduced to near-zero conditions that afternoon, and the ash overloaded the city's [[wastewater treatment]] plant.<ref name="HistoryLink"/><ref>{{cite news |date=May 17, 2015 |title=Ash and aftermath of Mount St. Helens: Our readers remember |url=https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/ash-and-aftermath-of-mount-st-helens-our-readers-remember/article_9d5e133a-fc6a-11e4-969a-37af86c094a1.html |work=Yakima Herald-Republic |access-date=March 1, 2019 |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717002752/https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/ash-and-aftermath-of-mount-st-helens-our-readers-remember/article_9d5e133a-fc6a-11e4-969a-37af86c094a1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>