Tyler is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Spokane County,
Washington, United States. Tyler is located on
Washington State Route 904 near
Interstate 90, west-southwest of
Cheney.
History
A post office called Tyler was established in 1882, and remained in operation until 1974. The community was given its name by the railroad.
The
Northern Pacific Railway
The Northern Pacific Railway was an important American transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the Western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest between 1864 and 1970. It was approved and chartered b ...
began laying tracks through the present location of Tyler in May 1881 along with a Railway Station under the town name of Tyler. In December 1881 Tyler's first store opened up, naming the new community Stevens.
Tyler: Cheney Historical Museum
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On June 7, 1882, a Post Office opened up in Stevens. Along with other buildings as people started to settle in the Town of Stevens.
For the next 10 years, the town's name was Stevens, but in 1892 the Citizens Renamed the town "Tyler."
By the 1900s Tyler had many businesses and homes built. Tyler also had water and a stockyard in the middle of town. In 1965 the I-90
Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain states, Mountain West, Great Pla ...
Freeway went right by the Community of Tyler. In 1974 Tyler's Post Office closed and to this day all mail is done through Cheney. Slowly the community began to decline in population.
References
Unincorporated communities in Spokane County, Washington
Unincorporated communities in Washington (state)
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