Basin City, WA

Basin City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Franklin County, Washington, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,063 residents. Basin City was laid out in the 1950s on land owned by dry-land farmer Loen Bailie. The town was established to support the local agricultural community which was being opened to irrigation through the Columbia Basin Project. In Basin City, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Basin City, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. As the name implies, it lies in a basin. Basin Hill extends about 6 miles southwest of town to the Columbia River, where it forms the southern extent of the "White Bluffs" for which White Bluffs was named. The tallest peak visible from Basin City is Rattlesnake Mountain.