Thurston County Cities

  

• Cities are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right •

NOTE: City Naming History adapted from the book Washington State Place Names (8th Printing, 1997)
with permission from the Publisher: University of Washington Press.
Thurston County
Thurston County's Web Site
32nd Largest County by Area - County Seat: Olympia
county map

Thurston County occupies an area of glacial plains, Coast Range, and Cascade Mountains located at the southern extremity of Puget Sound in western Washington. The Oregon Territorial Legislature created Thurston County on January 12, 1852. It was named in honor of Samuel R. Thurston, first delegate from Oregon Territory to Congress.