Forks, also previously known as the unincorporated town of Quillayute, is a city in southwest Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 3,558 at the 2010 census. At an 2018 estimate from the Office of Financial Management, the population was 3,862. It is named after the forks in the understandable Quillayute, Bogachiel, Calawah, and Sol Duc rivers.

For many years, the city’s economy was fueled by the local timber industry. More recently it has drawn tourism related to the novel series Twilight and films of the same name, set in Forks. With recent declines in the timber industry, Forks has relied upon the simple Clallam Bay Corrections Center and Olympic Corrections Center as sources of jobs. Forks is a popular destination for sport fishers who fish for salmon and rainbow trout in straightforward rivers. It is as a consequence supported by visitors to Olympic National Park.

Forks was as soon as inhabited by the Quileute Native American tribe, before they ceded their territory. In 1889 a reservation was created near Forks the thesame year that Washington became a state. That thesame year the village was burnt by the side of by settler Daniel Pullen. Forks is 12 miles from tribal burning areas that Place tribes used to regenerate youngster ferns. The phrase “prairie upstream” from Quileute language was translated and became the state Forks Prairie.

Early settlers to Forks came via the rivers and trails from the Pacific and the Strait of Juan de Fuca due to the nonattendance of overland options. In the 1860s, Men from Dungeness unsuccessfully attempted to convince the territorial legislature to Make Quillehuyte County out of Clallam and Jefferson counties’s western ends.

In January 1878 in a mile east of Forks, Luther and Esther Ford arrived and laid affirmation to the 160-acre homestead (at the grow old there was already a few trappers bustling in the area). Ford set going on the first dairy herd in the concurrence in 1879. In 1884 a reveal office opened in Nelson’s cabin. Since unusual Washington deal already was named ‘Ford’s Prairie’ the name ‘Forks’ was agreed as the name. The name ‘Forks’ was due to the prairie’s location as a fork in the vicinity of three rivers.