Battle Ground, Washington
Clark County · Population 20,743 · Card no. 1006
The name comes from a confrontation in 1855 that ended without a battle, when a captain let a group of Klickitat prisoners go and then talked them into returning peacefully.
- The town was a logging stop before it became a Vancouver suburb.
- Battle Ground Lake sits in an old volcanic crater just north of town.
- It has grown more than tenfold since 1970.
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