Annual events include the summer "Camas Days," as well as other festivals and celebrations. Historically, the commercial base of the city was based almost solely on the paper mill however, the diversity of industries has been enhanced considerably in recent years by the influx of several white-collar, high-tech companies including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp Microelectronics, Linear Technology and WaferTech among others. Accordingly, the city is about 20 miles east (downwind) from Portland, Oregon. At the west end of downtown Camas is a large Georgia-Pacific paper-mill from which the high school teams get their name "the Papermakers". ![]() ![]() Officially incorporated on June 18, 1906, the city is named after the camas lily, a plant with an onion-like bulb prized by Native Americans. Camas is a city in Clark County, Washington, with a population of 19,355 at the 2010 census.
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