Glenoma is an unincorporated community in Lewis County located off U.S. Route 12, between the towns of Morton and Randle. The area is northeast of Riffe Lake.[1]
Glenoma, Washington | |
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Unincorporated community | |
![]() ![]() Glenoma ![]() ![]() Glenoma | |
Coordinates: 46°30′52″N 122°09′36″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Washington |
County | Lewis |
Elevation | [1]820 ft (250 m) |
Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
zip code | 98336 |
Area code(s) | 360 |
Glenoma was originally named Vern and briefly as Verndale.[1] The area was later renamed by Beverly Coiner, deriving the moniker by combining glen, meaning "valley", and oma, from the Hebrew word for "a measure of grain"; the name was construed to mean "fruitful valley".[2][3][4] The official date of the creation of the town is unknown.
The first covered swimming pool in Lewis County opened in Glenoma in 1961.[5]
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Glenoma has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.[6]
Climate data for Glenoma | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °F (°C) | 44.9 (7.2) |
49.9 (9.9) |
53.6 (12.0) |
58.6 (14.8) |
65.3 (18.5) |
71 (22) |
77.1 (25.1) |
77.9 (25.5) |
72.4 (22.4) |
62.1 (16.7) |
51.0 (10.6) |
45.1 (7.3) |
60.7 (15.9) |
Average low °F (°C) | 31 (−1) |
32.2 (0.1) |
34.3 (1.3) |
37 (3) |
42.3 (5.7) |
47 (8) |
49.8 (9.9) |
49 (9) |
44.8 (7.1) |
38.3 (3.5) |
34.9 (1.6) |
31.5 (−0.3) |
39.3 (4.1) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 10.00 (254) |
6.96 (177) |
6.42 (163) |
5.42 (138) |
3.82 (97) |
2.98 (76) |
1.18 (30) |
1.41 (36) |
3.25 (83) |
5.14 (131) |
9.51 (242) |
10.08 (256) |
66.17 (1,681) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 7.7 (20) |
3.5 (8.9) |
1.0 (2.5) |
0.3 (0.76) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1.3 (3.3) |
3.2 (8.1) |
16.9 (43) |
Source: [7] |
Students in the town are served by the White Pass School District.[8]
The Glenoma Elementary school was built in the 1920s.[lower-alpha 1] It was rebuilt after a fire in 1932[9] and razed in 2011 after it had been closed due to low enrollment. Elementary students in the area began attending Randle Elementary School in 2004.[10]
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County seat: Chehalis | ||
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Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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