Warwick, Washington

Warwick is an unincorporated community in Klickitat County, in the U.S. state of Washington.[1]

History

A post office called Warwick was established in 1904, and remained in operation until 1906.[2] The community has the name of W. S. Warwick, a local cattleman.[3]

gollark: I think most phone infrastructure uses GPS and maybe a local atomic clock too.
gollark: I'm saying that if it became bad enough that datacentres failed, it would also break other stuff.
gollark: If you just use a pulse per second output from a GPS receiver for generic whatever it's fine. If you want to actually find your position then it would be bad.
gollark: But they do transmit the offset.
gollark: They use TAI, which doesn't have leap seconds at all.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Warwick, Washington
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 335.



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