Cheney was officially incorporated on November 28, 1883. The City of Cheney is located in Spokane County and is home to 10,590 residents. Cheney is home to Eastern Washington University, a public regional university with over 10,000 full-time students. Cheney developed into the city known today because of its strong ties to education and agriculture.  In the late 1800s, settlers attracted by plentiful water and timber and the promise of a railway line made their homes near a group of springs bubbling through a willow copse from the bank where the Burlington Northern depot now stands. The name of the community, originally Section Thirteen, became Willow Springs, then became Depot Springs, because of its ties to the railroad, then Billings, in honor of a president of the Northern Pacific Company, and finally Cheney, Washington in honor of Benjamin P. Cheney, a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Content courtesy of Wikepedia

The city of Medical Lake was incorporated in 1890. The city took its name from the nearby lake. The Spokane people, a Native American tribe which had long inhabited the area, believed the water and mud of the lake to possess curative properties. White settlers such as Andrew Lefevre and Stanley Hallett, who moved to the area in the 1870s, promoted this belief and marketed the lake salts for medicinal uses. A salt and soap industry developed here, followed by the construction of commercial bath houses in the 1880s. This was a period when springs and spas were popular developments across the country. Several resort hotels were constructed along the lake shore. In 1891, the state constructed Eastern State Hospital, and this further stimulated economic growth in the city. Such growth continued until the 1920s, when the lake declined in popularity as a tourist destination. A period of stagnation was interrupted in the 1940s with the construction of nearby Fairchild Air Force Base to support the US effort in World War II. This brought a surge of population to the city.  Content Courtesy of Wikepedia

Airway Heights is a city in Spokane County, Washington, United States, just west of Spokane. The population was 6,114 at the 2010 census. The city’s name was taken from its close proximity to the runways at Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane International Airport.  

The community lies in the northeastern corner of the flat Columbia Plateau. While the plateau tends to be flat, the terrain locally is quite rugged as it is part of the Channeled Scablands. The “heights” in the city’s name references its location at a higher elevation than the city center of Spokane. Traveling into Airway Heights along Highway 2, the main road into the city, from Downtown Spokane, one will climb over 500 feet. Highway 2 is the main east-west thoroughfare in the city. It connects Airway Heights with Fairchild to the west and Spokane to the east. Interstate 90 runs just a few miles south of the city. Content Courtesy of Wikepedia

The Southwest Spokane area encompasses Eagle Ridge, Geiger Heights, and the area west of U.S. 195 between Spokane and Cheney.  The Eagle Ridge community sits just South of Spokane off of U.S. 195.  Many of its residents work in Spokane or at Fairchild Air Force Base.  The community is dotted with parks, sport courts, and walking trails.  The space between Eagle Ridge and Cheney is made up of more rural communities with mix of hobby farms and big-time farms.  Find country living close to the comforts of the city in Southwest Spokane.