Port of Grays Harbor

The Chehalis River ( shə-HAY-lis) is a river in Washington in the United States. It originates in several forks in southwestern Washington, flows east, then north, then west, in a large curve, before emptying into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean. The river is the largest solely contained drainage basin in the state. It was once much larger during the Ice Age when the tongue of the glacial ice sheet covering the Puget Sound terminated near Olympia and glacial runoff formed a large torrent of meltwater. This carved a large oversized valley that is much larger than the current river could have produced. The river's mouth was out near current Westport until rising sea levels at the end of the ice age flooded the broad Chehalis Valley to form a ria, known today as Grays Harbor.

Newskah Creek is a stream located in Grays Harbor County, Washington. The creek flows south for approximately 9.5 miles (15.4 km) from the hills above Grays Harbor and empties into the Grays Harbor estuary 2 miles west of the community of South Aberdeen. The land within the Newskah Creek watershed is primarily used for commercial forestry. The creek has one named tributary, Falls Creek, which flows into the main stem approximately 3/4 of the distance upstream from the mouth. The origin of the name Newskah is obscure.

Grays Harbor Biodiesel Plant is the second largest biodiesel production facility in the United States, with an annual capacity of 100 million US gallons (380,000 m3) per year. The facility is sited on a 12-acre (49,000 m2) parcel of land at the Port of Grays Harbor, Washington.The site includes eight main tanks, which can hold 2,000,000 US gallons (7,600 m3) each, and two reserves that can each hold 500,000 US gallons (1,900 m3). The facility is "feedstock agnostic," meaning it can create biodiesel from numerous different feedstocks, even simultaneously. The majority of their oil comes from canola oil and soybean oil grown in Canada and Washington.In 2006, the National Biodiesel Board estimates that more than 250,000,000 US gallons (950,000 m3) of biodiesel were consumed in the U.S., up from 75,000,000 in 2005.Like other biodiesel production facilities around the country, the Imperium plant has been hit hard by the economic downturn and the drastic changes in the cost of petroleum fuels and biodiesel feedstocks. In early 2008 Imperium cut staff from the high of 107; again in March 2009 a further reduction brought the staff to 24. [1] Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine. In 2015, the plant was acquired by Renewable Energy Group, at which point the plant had 39 employees. Later that year, Renewable Energy Group added a new decanter and increased its production to 72.3 million US gallons (274,000 m3) in 2016.

KGHO (99.9 FM, "Classic Rock and Roll") is an American radio station broadcasting an oldies music format. Licensed to serve the Tacoma and Grays Harbor areas. The city of license community is Hoquiam, Washington, the station is currently owned by Grays Harbor LP FM.The station owners operate several other low power FM translators under the "Northwest Rock n' Roll Preservation Society" banner such as K293DE 106.5 in Olympia.

KBKW (1450 AM) is a radio station licensed to Aberdeen, Washington, and serving the area around Grays Harbor. The station is owned by Sacred Heart Radio, Inc. a non-profit organization. It airs a Catholic radio format, simulcast with flagship station KBLE Seattle. KBKW is powered at 1,000 watts, using a non-directional antenna. Programming is simulcast on 250-watt FM translator 103.5 MHz K278CU in Aberdeen.

Hotel Morck is a historic hotel building in Aberdeen, Washington. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Kurt Cobain stayed at the hotel when he was 17 and his song "Come as You Are" may have been inspired by its motto. It is at Heron Street and South K Street. Plans to redevelop the hotel building were discussed in 2019. It was designed by Abraham H. Albertson and built in 1924. It was listed on the National Register in 2016.

Rennie Island is an island in Grays Harbor, in the U.S. state of Washington. The island has been used as a treatment pond for sulfite effluent waste from local paper mills, and disposal site for dredging spoils. It was 225 acres (91 ha) in extent in the 1970s. The extreme western tip of Rennie Island is a sandy spit, a result of dredging dumps. Today this spit has grown a modest amount of vegetation, and is occasionally visited by boaters and hunters. Some locals know the spit as "Stanley Island." The spit is used as a landing for duck hunters coming ashore on the island, and its not uncommon that these hunters will build small campsites here. However, due to the very low elevation of Stanley Island, tides often wash over the entirety of the spit.

Olympic Stadium is a stadium in Hoquiam, Washington which opened in 1938. The City of Hoquiam first got the idea for an all-wood stadium in the early 1930s when it applied for a Civil Works Administration grant. In 1932, the grant was approved. Construction began in early 1938, with the stadium officially opening to the public on November 24, 1938. A renovation grant was awarded through the "Save America's Treasures" program requested by Congressional Representative Norm Dicks in 2005. Dicks also backed the State Historic Preservation Office request to add the stadium to the National Register of Historic Places which was granted in 2006. The physical structure of Olympic Stadium is an old-growth fir heavy-timber frame with cedar shingles siding. Built in a truncated U-shape with angled corners, the open portion of the 2+1⁄2-story grandstand faces east. This orientation was used so that fans and players would be somewhat sheltered from the wind and rain coming off the Pacific Ocean. The all-wooden park appears to be one of the more unusual in the country, with the shingled exterior, the completely covered L-shaped grandstand extending all the way down the line in right and extending into the outfield. The seats are wooden grandstands, which overlook the fields which are in excellent shape.In 2015 the Grays Harbor Gulls of the newly minted Mount Rainier Professional Baseball League opened for business. Prior to that the stadium last hosted professional baseball in the late 1990s when the Grays Harbor Gulls of the independent Western Baseball League called this park home and is now the home of the Grays Harbor Bearcats, a semi-pro football team. With an overflow capacity of 10,000, the stadium hosts baseball and football fields and receives plenty of use from teams such as the Bearcats football team, Hoquiam High School football team, Hoquiam Youth Baseball and Youth Football, the Comcast Outdoor Cinema, the Push Rods event, the Bluegrass festival and Logger's Playday events yearly.

Aberdeen () is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 17,013 at the 2020 census. The city is the economic center of Grays Harbor County, bordering the cities of Hoquiam and Cosmopolis. Aberdeen is occasionally referred to as the "Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula".

KAHS-LP (106.5 FM) is a low-power FM high school radio station licensed to Aberdeen, Washington, United States. The radio station is currently owned by Aberdeen School District #5. The radio station is currently hosted by "KaHs Mad".

J. M. Weatherwax High School, commonly referred to as Aberdeen High School, is a four-year public high school located in Aberdeen, Washington, the flagship of the Aberdeen School District. The AHS mascot is the Bobcat.

Aberdeen School District No. 5 is a public school district in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States, and serves the city of Aberdeen. In May 2013, the district had an enrollment of 3,246.