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Nile, Washington
Unincorporated community & census-designated place
Nile, WashingtonLocation of Nile, Washington
Coordinates: 46°49′14″N 120°56′22″W / 46.8206761°N 120.9395220°W / 46.8206761; -120.9395220
Country	United States
State	Washington
County	Yakima
Elevation	2,005 ft (611 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	98937
Area code	509
GNIS feature ID	1523659

Nile is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington, United States, located approximately 35 miles northwest of Yakima in the Nile Valley adjacent to the Naches River in the Nile Valley, near the mouth of Rattlesnake Creek.

The community was established in the mid-1890s by families of James Beck, William Markel and Henry Sedge, who may have named the small valley and community Nile because of the area's fertility thought to resemble that of the Nile River Valley in Egypt. According to historian Gretta Gossett, "there is yet an alluvial plain along the river near Nile Creek which is often flooded in the spring and left with a layer of silt perhaps giving rise to the name for the Nile in Egypt."

References

1. "Nile". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
2. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
3. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
4. "Washington Place Names database". Tacoma Public Library. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2012.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Yakima County, Washington, United States
County seat: Yakima
Cities	Grandview Granger Mabton Moxee Selah Sunnyside Tieton Toppenish Union Gap Wapato Yakima Zillah
Towns	Harrah Naches
CDPs	Ahtanum Buena Cliffdell Cowiche Donald Eschbach Gleed Nile Outlook Parker Satus Summitview Tampico Terrace Heights White Swan
Other communities	Artesian Brownstown Byron East Selah Fruitvale Goose Prairie Gromore Pomona Rimrock Wenas
Indian reservation	Yakama Indian Reservation‡
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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