Editing Coulee City, Washington (section)

==Geography==
Coulee City sits on the southern shore of [[Banks Lake]], a man-made reservoir that stretches for 27 miles to [[Grand Coulee Dam]]. At Coulee City, water from the reservoir enters a system of irrigation canals taking it to [[Billy Clapp Lake]] to the south and then beyond across the broader [[Columbia Basin Project]].<ref name="Kershner">{{cite web |last1=Kershner |first1=Jim |date=February 5, 2011 |title=Grant County commissioners officially declare the creation of the Port of Coulee City via resolution on March 21, 1960 |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/9707 |work=[[HistoryLink]] |access-date=April 30, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Gibson">{{cite web |last1=Gibson |first1=Elizabeth |date=December 3, 2005 |title=First irrigation water reaches Pasco on May 15, 1948 |url=https://historylink.org/File/7555 |work=HistoryLink |access-date=April 30, 2022}}</ref>

[[Dry Falls]], site of a catastrophic and large prehistoric waterfall, is located about two miles southwest of Coulee City.<ref name="USGS">{{cite map |year=2017 |title=Coulee City Quadrangle |type=Topographic map |scale=1:24,000 |series=7.5-Minute Series |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ht-bin/tv_browse.pl?id=33c254c49624ded632abe15f3dcb3c06 |publisher=United States Geological Survey |access-date=April 30, 2022}}</ref>

[[U.S. Route 2 in Washington|U.S. Route 2]] passes through the town from west to east and intersects [[Washington State Route 17|State Route 17]], which provides north-south connections. [[Washington State Route 155|State Route 155]] has its southern terminus immediately east of town, and provides connections to the [[Grand Coulee Dam]] and surrounding communities to the northwest.<ref name="USGS"/><ref>{{cite WSDOT map |year=2014 |link=yes |accessdate=May 2, 2022}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|0.90|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all of it land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=December 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |archivedate=July 2, 2012 }}</ref>