Camas is a city in Clark County, Washington, with a population of 26,065 at the 2020 census. The east side of town borders the city of Washougal, Washington, and the west side of town borders Vancouver, Washington. Camas lies along the Washington side of the Columbia River, across from Troutdale, Oregon, and is allowance of the Portland metropolitan area.

One of the major geographical features of the city is Prune Hill. Prune Hill is an extinct volcanic vent and is allowance of the Boring Lava Field of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington.

Officially incorporated upon June 18, 1906, the city is named after the camas lily, a forest with an onion-like bulb prized by Native Americans. At the west end of downtown Camas is the large Georgia-Pacific paper mill from which the tall school teams gain their name, “the Papermakers”. A paper mill was first conventional in the city in 1883 subsequently the support of Henry Pittock, a wealthy entrepreneur from England who had granted in Portland, Oregon, where he published The Oregonian.

Pittock’s LaCamas Colony bought 2,600 acres in 1883, forming the Columbia River Paper Company the later year to begin production in 1885, before merging afterward Oregon City’s Crown Paper Company to form Crown Columbia Paper in 1905. After converting from steam to electricity in 1913, Crown merged later than Willamette Paper in 1914 and then past Zellerbach Paper in 1928. Crown Zellerbach became the largest paper manufacturer on the west coast. During World War II, the Camas mill temporarily manufactured parts and components for US Naval vessels produced at the straightforward Kaiser Shipyards. In 1950, the Camas mill was the first factory to develop folded paper napkins. “Crown Z” was the area’s biggest employer in 1971, with 2,643 of approximately 3,700 Clark County paper mill workers. In 1986, Crown Zellerbach was absorbed by James River Corporation; after extra mergers following the Fort Howard Paper Company in 1997 and Georgia-Pacific in 2000, Koch Industries acquired Georgia-Pacific and the Camas mill in 2005. In 2018, Koch announced plans to lay off approximately 200–300 workers, shutting down all equipment linked to communications paper, fine paper conversion and pulping operations.