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We would like to provide the residents of  Ellensburg  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Ellensburg Home page. The Ellensburg Home page provides as much information as possible on Ellensburg. Knowing Ellensburg’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Ellensburg’s Home page, you will also find Ellensburg’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Ellensburg has a population of 20679. 49.1% of Ellensburg’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.9 are female. 27% of Ellensburg is married and 34% own their own home. The Average Home price is $236,784, and the average rent is $1,052. Household median income in Ellensburg is $43,567, and the individual median income is $19,990. Ellensburg’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.2%), Hispanic(10.6%), Multiple(7%), Other(5.6%), Black(2.1%), Asian(2%), Pacific(1.6%), Native(0.5%).


Ellensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kittitas County, Washington, United States. It is located just east of the Cascade Range near the junction of Interstate 90 and Interstate 82. The population was 18,666 at the 2020 census. and was estimated to be 19,596 in 2021.The city is located along the Yakima River in the Kittitas Valley, an agricultural region that extends east towards the Columbia River.


The valley is a major producer of timothy hay, which is processed and shipped internationally. Ellensburg is also the home of Central Washington University (CWU). Ellensburg, originally named Ellensburgh for the wife of town founder John Alden Shoudy, was founded in 1871 and grew rapidly in the 1880s following the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway.


The city was once a leading candidate to become the state capital of Washington, but its campaign was scuppered by a major fire in 1889.


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