Facts About Pasco
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The City of Pasco was a 2019 and 2018 finalist for “All-America City” from the National Civic League
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Pasco has around 300 days of sunshine per year.
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Pasco is one of three cities that make up Washington state’s Tri-Cities region, a mid-sized metropolitan area of approximately 296,224 people.
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the city has a total area of 34.08 square miles, of which 30.50 square miles is land and 3.58 square miles is water.
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Pasco is located at 46°14′19″N 119°6′31″W (46.238507, −119.108534).
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Pasco was officially incorporated on September 3, 1891.
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The city that we know today as Pasco was originally called Great Forks by the Indians who lived there.
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Pasco was named by Virgil Bogue, a construction engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway after Cerro de Pasco,[8] a city in the Peruvian Andes, where he had helped build a railroad.
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Pasco has experienced rapid residential growth in the 21st century, growing from a 2000 population of 32,066 to a 2021 population estimate of 78,700
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As Pasco is located in Southeastern Washington, the city lies in the rain shadow of the Cascade Range.
