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Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA

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Moses Lake is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 20,366 as of the 2010 census. Moses Lake is the largest city in Grant County.

History:

Before the construction of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in 1941 and Larson Air Base in 1942 the area was largely barren. Native Americans knew the area as Houaph, which meant willow. Chief Moses was leader of the Sinkiuse tribe from 1859 to 1899, and was forced to negotiate with white settlers who began to settle in the area in the 1880s. Under pressure from the government, Chief Moses traded the Columbia Basin land for a reservation that stretched from Lake Chelan north to the Canada–US border. The government later traded again for what is now the Colville Indian Reservation.

The new settlers named the lake in honor of the chief. The city was originally named Neppel, after a town in Germany where one of the original settlers had lived. The first settlers established fisheries and farms — some of the first exported items were carp, jackrabbits and fruit — but irrigation attempts failed and settlers left at about the same rate as they came. When the town was incorporated and renamed Moses Lake in 1938, the population was estimated at 301 people.

Arrival of the air base in 1942 and irrigation water pumped from Grand Coulee Dam in 1955 offered newcomers a reason and a way to settle in an area that previously had little to offer other than good fishing and a place to water sheep and cattle. Moses Lake was quickly transformed into a hub for a vast region where transportation, agriculture and recreation came together.

The air base was built to train World War II pilots to fly the P-38 Lightning and B-17 Flying Fortress, two planes that were essential to the war effort. The base was closed after the war ended, but reopened in 1948 as a U.S. Air Force base and test area for Boeing’s B-47 Stratojet and B-50 Superfortress.

The B-47 tests led to development of modern commercial jetliners still used today. Fighter jets were stationed there to protect Grand Coulee Dam to the north and the Hanford site to the south. Boeing still uses the airport as a test and evaluation facility for its aircraft. Japan Airlines used the airport as a training area from November 1968 until March 2009. The old air base is now owned by the Port of Moses Lake and is home to Grant County International Airport, Big Bend Community College and several businesses. Farmers, meanwhile, had developed new methods to irrigate water from the lake and from the Columbia River and began planting expansive irrigated acreage. When the Columbia Basin Project was completed in the mid-1950s, farms expanded by thousands of acres, growing potatoes, corn, onions, carrots and sugar beets.

In little more than a decade, Moses Lake’s population grew from 300 to 2,679 in 1950. Today, the population is 21,419 (2014 estimate).

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Kemmerer, Louis George	10 Jan 1922	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I88221
2	Kemmerer, Fern Elizabeth	11 Jan 1923	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I88231

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Zimbelman, Donald Gus	18 Jul 2017	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I2113
2	Trautmann, Katherine - wife of	14 Jul 1979	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I80034
3	Trautmann, John	3 Mrz 1980	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I80033
4	Stelzer, Sarah	20 Jan 1999	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I76602
5	Schlimmer, Conrad Emil	Datum unbekannt	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I8780
6	Schimke, Simon	17 Jan 2007	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I174406
7	Oster, Jacob C. Jr.	Aug 1975	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I159434
8	Melcher, Carl R.	14 Jun 2004	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I80048
9	Lobe, Esther Lorraine	29 Jan 1992	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I76611
10	Kisler, Clarence	28 Okt 1977	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I77046
11	Kessel, Katharina	13 Apr 1979	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I174416
12	Kemmerer, Fern Elizabeth	9 Feb 2003	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I88231
13	Kallenberger, Ester Ella	25 Jul 1981	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I5318
14	Jeske, Magdalena	11 Jun 1975	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I159409
15	Hochstetter, Johann Gottlieb	17 Jun 1918	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I152279
16	Gross, Lorina	28 Aug 2016	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I235098
17	Greenwalt, Yetta	21 Jun 2004	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I80047
18	Giese, Manford Laverne	10 Okt 1995	Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I159397

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Rennich, Jakob		Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I172392
2	Huether, Paul		Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I236144
3	Hochstetter, Johann Gottlieb		Moses Lake, Grant County, Washington, USA	I152279