Editing Winlock, Washington (section)

===21st century===
A fire in Winlock's downtown area consumed the city's historic Warne's Drug Store building in late 2022. The structure was built in 1911 but burned down the following year. Rebuilt soon thereafter, the building housed the now-defunct Winlock News and Winlock Phone Company, as well as other various businesses for the next century. At the time of loss, the location was used as a hostel for six years.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Emily |title=City of Winlock Intends to Tear Down Fire-Damaged Historic Building by End of the Week |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/city-of-winlock-intends-to-tear-down-fire-damaged-historic-building-by-end-of-the-week,303797 |access-date=June 26, 2023 |work=The Chronicle |date=November 16, 2022}}</ref>
 
An annexation proposal by the city to incorporate Winlock's urban growth area (UGA) was dismissed in 2023 by the Lewis County Supreme Court over a combination of protests from residents in the UGA and the questions of statutory and filing periods and connected legal authority.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Emily |title=Judge Dismisses Winlock's Petition to Enforce Annexation |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/judge-dismisses-winlocks-petition-to-enforce-annexation,317542 |access-date=June 19, 2023 |work=The Chronicle |date=April 17, 2023}}</ref> The UGA, formed from a county contract in 2006, is recorded as containing {{convert|1,335|acre}} with a population of 335 residents. A citizen-led petition for the proposal to be reviewed by the Washington State Boundary Review Board for Lewis County exceeded the minimum voting requirements and a subsequent unanimous approval of the annexation by the board occurred in August of that year. The annexation was adopted by a majority vote of the Winlock city council that autumn.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vander Stoep |first1=Isabel |title=1,355-acre expansion of Winlock approved by review board |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/1355-acre-expansion-of-winlock-approved-by-review-board,323499 |access-date=August 14, 2023 |work=The Chronicle |date=August 9, 2023}}</ref><ref name="FAWMS">{{cite news |last1=Roland |first1=Mitchell |title=Following annexation, Winlock mayor says the city 'kept our promise' |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/following-annexation-winlock-mayor-says-the-city-kept-our-promise,370411 |access-date=December 18, 2024 |work=The Chronicle |date=December 16, 2024}}</ref>