Named for explorer William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Clark County contains some of the oldest American settlements in Washington state. The major city is
Vancouver, also the county seat, joined to Portland on the other side of the Columbia by the
Interstate 5 bridge. Its eastern suburbs, like
Camas and
Washougal, are growing, too, now more accessible by the Interstate 205 bridge to eastern Multnomah County.
North of Vancouver lie Battle Ground, where no battle was fought, and La Center, which did not gets it name from the French.
