WA - Lower Grand Coulee

Complete with grain elevator--the tallest structure in town. It _seems_ like the plains, except that we're in the Columbia Basin in Washington state! Coulee City is both on the BNSF railroad and US 2. Per Wikipedia it has a population of 562. As I've mentioned, the term "city" has no legal significance in the US. Any little burg with delusions of grandeur can call itself a "city"!

An enormous dry waterfall in the middle of the Grand Coulee, eastern Washington state, USA. It was formed by the gigantic Spokane (a.k.a. Scabland, Missoula) floods during the last ice age, when a glacial dam in what's now northernmost Idaho would collapse periodically. The glacier, a tongue of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, backed up glacial Lake Missoula into the Rocky Mountain trench, and so all that water would suddenly go sloshing across eastern Washington. The floods left behind the Channeled Scabland, a distinctive topography of buttes, coulees (flat-bottomed canyons), channels, closed basins, and enormous ripple deposits.