Tumwater

Geographical coordinates - 47 ° 0 ′ 28 ″ north latitude, 122 ° 54 ′ 40 ″ west longitude. The city has a total area of ​​37.53 square meters. km, of which 37.09 km² is 0.44 km² - open water.

According to the 2010 census ^[3] , the population of the city was 17,371 people - 7,566 households and 4,460 families. The population density was 468.4 people / sq. km The racial makeup of the city: white — 85.0%, African Americans — 1.7%, Native Americans — 1.2%, Asians — 4.8%, natives of Hawaii and the Pacific Islands — 0.5%, and other races — 1, 6%, representatives of two or more races - 5.2%. Hispanics (of any race) made up 6.2% of the population. 28.9% of households had children under 18 years of age living with them, 40.9% were married couples living together, 13.1% of families were women with children without a husband, 4.9% were men with children without a husband wives, 41.1% of the population did not have a family. 31.6% of all households consisted of individuals and 9.7% of them were single people aged 65 and over. The average age of the urban population was 37.4 years. 21.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 10.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28.2% from 25 to 44 years old; 26.8% from 45 to 64 years old; 13% were 65 years of age or older. The gender composition of the city: 47.7% of men and 52.3% of women.

The Tumwater settlement was founded in 1846 by pioneers Michael Simmons and George Washington Bush, who were involved in the development of the Puget Sound territories. The first settlers were attracted by a convenient bay and a large number of land suitable for grazing. Bush and Simmons set up a sawmill in the settlement.

In Oregon, black immigration was banned to avoid controversy over the status of the territory in terms of allowing slavery. George Washington Bush was a mulatto and did not have the right to own land in Oregon, but managed to achieve this right in the territory of the future state of Washington when, as a result of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, these lands were transferred to the United States, and not to Great Britain. In 1855, two years after the formation of Washington Territory, the Territory Congress approved Bush’s right to own land, making him the first African American to own land in Washington.

Tumwater was incorporated on November 25, 1869 ^[4] , and received city status on November 12, 1875. The name of the city comes from the word "waterfall" in the Chinkuku jargon .