Roosevelt is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. The population was 156 at the 2010 census, up from 79 at the 2000 census. The Roosevelt Regional Landfill, one of the largest landfills in the United States, is located at Roosevelt.
The community was named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt, Wash., is the creature of the building of the North Bank railroad down the Columbia River. The first settlers at this place located here in 1906, and were T.B. Montgomery and J.A. Foister. Mr. Montgomery laid out the town, built the Roosevelt Hotel, and secured a postoffice here, of which O.B. Ebi was the first postmaster. Mr. Foister built the schoolhouse here and purchased that hotel from M. Montgomery, and opened it in 1906. The place has a hotel, two general stores, three grain warehouses, blacksmith shop, lumber yard, paint store, barber shop, and livery, operating along with the livery business the stage line for mail, passengers, and express between this place and Bickleton. Roosevelt has ferry connections with Arlington, Ore., giving the people of this side of the river the privilege of transportation over the O.R. & N. railroad. The ferry is run by steam and a very commendable service is maintained throughout the day.
Roosevelt is the rail and river shipping point for a very large and rich country devoted to wheat, cattle, sheep, and some fruit. In the locations where irrigation is possible some of the finest specimens of fruit have been raised that have ever sought an exhibition table. In its very beginning Roosevelt is promising and prosperous, and as the development of the country tributary to it is continued it is bound to grow and become important.
Roosevelt, Washington, is located in Klickitat County on the Washington banks of the Columbia River at River Mile (RM) 242, in T3 R21, Sec.16. Five miles downstream is the orchard community of Sundale and 47 miles upstream is the community of Plymouth. On the Oregon side directly across from Roosevelt is the community of Arlington.