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Welcome to Clark County
Washington Genealogy Research
Early Clark County Settlers 1898
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Clark County Washington
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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County Data
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Brief
History:
Clark County began as the
District of Vancouver on July 27, 1844. It
included all the land north of the
Columbia
River, west of the Rocky Mountains,
and south of Alaska. In 1845 the
provisional government changed its name to
Vancouver County. At that time it
stretched from the Columbia River to 54
degrees 40 minutes North Latitude in
what is now British Columbia. On
June 15, 1846, the United States Senate
approved the present boundary between
the U.S. and Canada at the 49th
Parallel.
On August 13, 1848, President James
K. Polk signed an act creating the entire
region as the Oregon Territory. On
September 3, 1849, the Oregon
Territorial Legislature modified the
borders again and changed its name to
Clarke
County in honor of explorer William
Clark. At this time it included all of
present-day Washington and continued to
be divided and subdivided until
reaching its present area in 1880. It was
not until 1925 that the spelling was
corrected to its present form.
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