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Colville is a city in northeastern Washington and the county seat of Stevens County.

The city's roots trace to Fort Colvile, a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post established in 1825 near Kettle Falls and named for company governor Andrew Colvile.

The U.S. Army built a new Fort Colville at Pinkney City in 1859, about three miles northeast of the present city, and abandoned it in 1882.

The present townsite was platted in January 1883 under the name Belmont (or Bellmond) and renamed Colville so the county seat could be moved there; the Stevens County courthouse relocated to Colville on January 1, 1884.

The arrival of the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway in the summer of 1889 sparked a brief boom that brought the region's first bank, and Colville officially incorporated as a city on June 7, 1890.

The original Fort Colvile site was later flooded by Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir formed behind Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River.

Colville had a population of 4,917 at the 2020 census, living in 2,149 households, up from 4,673 residents in 2010.

The city hosts the headquarters of the Colville National Forest, managed by the U.S. Forest Service, as well as regional offices of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

Colville's economy, historically centered on agriculture, timber, and mining, has shifted in the 21st century toward retail, medical, and government services.

Colville has a continental Mediterranean climate with warm, dry summers and cold winters, averaging about 20 inches of precipitation and roughly 43 inches of snow per year.