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Tonasket is a city in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. The population was 994 at the 2000 census and increased 3.8% to 1,032 at the 2010 census. ==History== Tonasket was officially incorporated on December 16, 1927. It is named after Chief Tonasket of the Okanogan people,〔(''Tonasket'', GhostTownsUSA.com website )〕 a local leader from this area who assumed the status of grand chief of the American Okanogan after the drawing of the U.S.–Canada border by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, assuming a leadership role in Okanogan territory formerly held by Chief Nicola who lived north of the border. Tonasket is a city located along the eastern bank of the Okanogan River in north-central Okanogan County, Washington. U.S. Highway 97, the main north-south highway through central Washington, bisects the city on its way north to the Canadian border approximately twenty miles away. Washington State Route 20 breaks east of 97, running across the state. The city, with an elevation 900 feet above sea level, is bordered on the north by Siwash Creek, and the south by Bonaparte Creek. The present population is estimated to be 1,000. Tonasket, which has been the site of a U.S. post office since 1901, was platted in 1910 and incorporated in 1927. It serves as a hub for agricultural and forestry industries in north central Okanogan County. It is the location of three major fruit storage and processing facilities and the offices of the Tonasket Ranger District of the Okanogan National Forest. Tonasket is 20 miles west of Cayuse Mountain Road, home of the Okanogan Family Faire,〔http://www.okanoganfamilyfaire.net/〕 a local barter fair and harvest celebration. Many descendants of pioneer families still reside in Tonasket and the surrounding areas and are interested in preserving and sharing the history of their heritage. A son of one of those pioneer families, Walter H. Brattain, grew up on a cattle ranch near Tonasket, attended Tonasket schools and shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics (with William Shockley and John Bardeen) for the invention of the transistor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tonasket, Washington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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