Salkum

Salkum is a rural unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington. The town is located on U.S. Route 12 and is 2.1 miles west of Silver Creek.[1]

The area was a village of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.[2] Salkum is a Cowlitz Indian word meaning "boiling water" or "boiling up", a reference to a nearby series of waterfalls on Mill Creek.[2][3][4]

The first non-Native settlers built a grist mill at Mill Creek in 1881, beginning the town's future.[5] A post office was established in 1882 and moved in 1890, shifting the town's center two miles north.[6] Salkum would become a timber community, producing lumber until the 1930s when the sawmills shut down.[2]

Salkum opened its first library, as part of the Timberland Regional Library system, in 1986 as a test to expand library services to rural communities. Proving successful, the community refurbished an unoccupied gas station and the library was moved into the larger building in 1993.[7][8][9]

Salkum is recognized as being majority Republican and conservative.

The results for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election for the Salkum voting district were as follows:[10]

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