Geography

Packwood is placed at 46°36′14″N 121°40′40″W (46.6040008, -121.6778664). Although Packwood itself is unincorporated, a town & circumferent areas (especially a residential communities of High Valley & Timber line) keep around an approximate people of 1,010.

Packwood is within a White Pass School District, which, additionally to Packwood, covers a settlement of Randle & Glenoma, Inl& northwest & a huge forested expanse in extreme eastern Lewis County, terminating at a Cascade Mountains and the county border using Yakima County, Wa. Within 2004, a town's school-age people dropped pertinent that a local K-6 simple school was shuttered.

History
Packwood is known as for a early northwest explorer William Packwood, world health organization, along sustaining James Longmire, were tasked per Wthe Territorial Legislature to chart a moo skip the Cascade Mountains, this necessitated per deaths of many delegates in their journeying to the foremost legislative session. As a mark of their successes therein venture, a following pass - known as a Packwood Saddle - is however unused by any road, trail, or even more transport to pass between a east & west sides of the Cascades.

Economy
A town of Packwood has historically relied on a forward products industry as an economic engine, supplemented by government employment (via the National Outdoors & Park Services) & seasonal touristry. In the late 1990's, a Woods Service began consolidation of numbers of ranger stations, by owning a effect that Woods Service jobs moved to the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randle%2C_Washington Randle] and a freshly Cowlitz Valley Ranger Station. Shortly thenceforth, many factors, including a Asian fiscal crisis, reduced logging inside federal lands, & depression in lumber numbers, brought a closing of the Packwood Lumber Mill. Due to a limited economic chance, the town's housing consists heavy of summertime housing for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbird_%28people%29 snowbirds], retirement homes, & vacation cabins. the inflow of retired person & determination of long-period locals has led to a recent civic revival in the town, but. Many local organizations search to promote a touristry chance of the town, improve holidaymaker & vacation infrastructure, & project for the long-long-run economic revival of the town.