Editing Tenino, Washington (section)

===20th century===
The quarries declined in the early 20th century when many builders switched to [[concrete]].<ref name="ASSOS">{{cite news |last1=Pucci |first1=Carol |title=A sweet slice of small-town Western Washington in Tenino |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/a-sweet-slice-of-small-town-western-washington-in-tenino/ |access-date=June 13, 2024 |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=August 23, 2018}}</ref> Logging, saw mills, and coal mining remained as well established industries in the area.<ref name="FSATT"/> However, as the timber played out and railroads switched to [[Diesel locomotive|diesel]] in the mid-20th century, these industries also declined.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, before the construction of [[Interstate 5 in Washington|Interstate 5]], a notorious stretch along [[U.S. Route 99]] through Tenino gained a reputation as the "Speed Trap of the West".<ref name="FSATT"/> Many motorists considered it a [[speed trap]] because of the strict enforcement by police of the abruptly reduced speed limit through town.<ref>Guy Reed Ramsey, ''Postmarked Washington: Thurston County''. Thurston Co Historic Commission, 1988, 53.</ref>

Since the mid-1970s, the US Army has used a geographical map of Tenino as a training aid in map reading, because of the variety of symbols represented on the map.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.thurstontalk.com/2020/01/25/teninos-global-place-on-the-map-thanks-to-the-u-s-army/ | title=Tenino's Global Place on the Map Thanks to the U.S. Army | date=January 25, 2020 }}</ref>