Withrow, Washington

Coordinates: 47°42′17.5″N 119°48′31.2″W / 47.704861°N 119.808667°W / 47.704861; -119.808667
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Town of Withrow with the hills that comprise the terminal moraine for the Okanagan lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet immediately behind it
The Withrow Moraine includes erratics on glacial till at the terminus of the Okanogan lobe just north of Withrow.

Withrow is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Washington, United States.[1]

Named for a cattleman named J.J. Withrow,

Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which flowed southward through the Okanogan trough from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia blocking the course of the Columbia River
and ending on the elevations of the Waterville Plateau.

Illustration of the glacial impacts

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Withrow, Washington
  2. ^ Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 352.

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