Esther Short Park
Esther Short Park is a public park and town square located in downtown Vancouver, Washington. Established in 1853, it is the oldest public park in the state of Washington, and one of the oldest public parks in the West.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: park in Clark County, Washington, United States of America
- Also known as: “Short Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Slocum House and Kiggins Theatre.
Slocum House
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Slocum House is a Victorian style house located in Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, which today stands at the southwest corner of Esther Short Park.
Kiggins Theatre
Movie theater
Photo: Werewombat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kiggins Theatre is an historic, single-screen movie theater in Vancouver, Washington. Named for former Vancouver mayor and businessman John P. Kiggins, it opened in 1936. It is located at 1011 Main Street in downtown Vancouver.
Vancouver Community Library
Library
Photo: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Vancouver Community Library is a library in Vancouver, Washington, in the United States. Part of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District, the 83,000-square-foot library is the second largest in the Portland metropolitan area, second to the Central Library in Portland, Oregon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vancouver and Officers Row.
Vancouver
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vancouver is a city in southwest Washington State, immediately north of the border with Oregon. The city was established around Fort Vancouver, a fur trading outpost dating back to 1824, making this one of the oldest continuously-inhabited European communities in the Pacific Northwest.
Officers Row
Locality
Officers Row, a part of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Historic District, is a congregation of 21 of the former homes of U.S. military officers stationed at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington.
Hayden Island
Suburb
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hayden Island is an island in the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The wide main channel of the Columbia passes north of the island.
Esther Short Park
- Categories: urban park and recreation area
- Location: Clark County, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.62648° or 45° 37′ 35″ northLongitude
-122.67498° or 122° 40′ 30″ westElevation
52 feet (16 metres)Operator
VancouverOpen location code
84QVJ8GG+H2OpenStreetMap ID
way 33068462OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
5810319Wikidata ID
Q5401300
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Esther Short Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Short Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, Washington)”
- Cebuano: “Short Park”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Esther Short Park”. Photo: Cory Barnes, CC BY 2.0.