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Lewis County is a county located south of Thurston County and bisected by Interstate Five. In addition to the highway system, Centralia is a busy schedulef stop on the Amtrak and connects with northwest corridor train traffic from Vancouver, British Columbia to Portland, Oregon. The population of the county is about 75,000. The county seat is Chehalis, and the largest city is Centralia. The two cities are located only a few miles apart.

The county is named after Meriwether Lewis. Lewis County was created in 1845, by the provisional government of Oregon Territory.

The county has a total area of 2,436 square miles, of which 2,408 square miles is land and 29 square miles is water. Mt. St. Helens, the active volcano, is located just south of Lewis County and west of Interstate Five.