Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Davenport, WA

Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Washington, and as the county's largest city it serves as the hub for business, medical and educational services across the county.

The springs at the Davenport site were an oasis and camping place for the Lower Spokane people on an east-west Indigenous trail across the otherwise semi-arid Big Bend country.

Aloysius Harry Harker became the first permanent non-Native settler in 1880 at the settlement called Cottonwood Springs; John C. Davenport founded a rival settlement on higher ground in 1883, and after it burned in 1884 its businesses moved down to Cottonwood Springs, which took the Davenport name.

The Washington Central branch of the Northern Pacific Railway reached Davenport in February 1889, and the city's 1889 depot stood for nearly a century before its demolition in 1988.

Davenport was incorporated on June 9, 1890.

On December 15, 1896, Davenport became the Lincoln County seat after an election chose it over Sprague — the previous seat, which had been destroyed by fire — and Harrington.

The 2020 census counted 1,703 people in Davenport, living in 685 households.

Davenport sits in the northern wheat belt of the Columbia Basin and remains a central collection and shipping point for dryland wheat, with grain elevators operated by the Davenport Union Warehouse and Odessa Union Warehouse and much of the crop bound for flour mills in Spokane and Cheney.

The city lies at the northern edge of the Channeled Scablands scoured by the Ice Age Missoula Floods, receives only about 14 inches of precipitation a year, and stands at an elevation of about 2,375 feet.

U.S. Route 2 runs through the heart of Davenport toward Spokane, 35 miles east, and the city is also the eastern terminus of State Route 28 and the southern terminus of State Route 25, which runs north to the Canadian border.