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Place Name
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Hoquiam
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Pronunciation
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HO-kwee-uhm
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Place Status (Type)
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town
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Population
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8,972 (1990)
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Location
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Grays Harbor County, Washington (WA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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46°59'N
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Longitude
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123°54'W
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Hoquiam
(HO-kwee-uhm), town (1990 pop. 8,972), Grays Harbor
co., W Wash., 4 mi/6.4 km W of Aberdeen, at
mouth of Hoquiam R., on Grays Harbor; 46°59'N 123°54'W. RR
junction. With its twin city, Aberdeen, it has fishing (including
shellfish), lumbering, paper, cranberry, and tourist industries; mfg.
(cedar prods., lumber, veneer, plywood, paper industry machinery).
Bowerman Airport on peninsula in harbor, to SW. Olympic Natl. Park and
Olympic Natl. Forest are to the N. Inc. 1890.
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