Colville is a city in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The population was 4,673 at the 2010 census. It is the county chair of Stevens County.

John Work, an agent for The Hudson’s Bay Company, established Fort Colvile near the Kettle Falls fur trading site in 1825. It replaced the Spokane House and the Flathead Post as the main trading center on the Upper Columbia River. The Place was named for Andrew Colvile, a Hudson’s Bay Company governor. The fort continued to be used for some era as a middle of mining and transportation/supply support associated considering gold rushes in the 1850s, particularly the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. After it was forlorn in 1870, some buildings stood until as late as 1910. The site was flooded by Lake Roosevelt after construction of the Grand Coulee Dam upon the Columbia River.

Americans then wanted to take effect in this territory. In the first half of the 19th century, the Oregon boundary dispute (or Oregon question) arose thus of competing British and American claims to the Pacific Northwest. It was fixed by the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which set the other boundary between Canada and the United States at the 49th Parallel, about Forty (40) miles to the north.

In 1859, the U.S. Army traditional a supplementary Fort Colville at Pinkney City, Washington, about 3 miles NE of the current city of Colville. That fort was solitary in 1882. In late 1871, with the unquestionable of Hudson’s Bay Company house claims, Governor Edward Selig Salomon directed John Wynne to take those lands which Elongated south to Orin-Rice Road, including some currently share of the City of Colville. With the planned suspension of Fort Colville, businesses and buildings moved to the gift location in the Colville River Valley prior to 1882. In January 1883, W. F. Hooker filed the first plat in Stevens County next the name “Belmont” or “Bellmond”. He was encouraged to regulate the plat reveal to Colville in view of that that the county seat could be moved to this location. On December 28, 1883, the Stevens County Board of County Commissioners, including county official John U. Hofstetter, held a special session concerning the removal of county history to Belmont from the county chair of Colville, formerly called Pinkney City. In that meeting, commissioners allowed heartwarming the county seat and jail to the town afterward the proclaim of Colville, if proprietors provided a block of land for them without cost. County officers were allowed to involve into a building owned by John U. Hofstetter for two years. On January 1, 1884, the Stevens County courthouse moved to Colville. City tradition says that Colville was founded by John U. Hofstetter. It was officially incorporated as a city on June 7, 1890.