Pateros pə-TARR-əs is a city in Okanogan County, Washington, United States. The population was 643 at the 2000 census and increased 3.7% to 667 in the 2010 census.

Pateros was originally received as Ive’s Landing in roughly speaking 1886 by Lee Ives. Ives began farming the Place near the confluence of the Methow and Columbia Rivers, which was populated by a little band of Native Americans and nearly 20 Chinese miners. Ives along with built an 18-room hotel at the town site and operated a ferry crossing. The first state office was built in 1895.

In 1900, Charles Nosler acquired most of the townsite. He renamed the town to Pateros, after a village in the Philippines he past visited. In 1903, the city consisted of four personal ad establishments and nine residences and the town was sold to J.C. Steiner. Steiner enthusiastically promoted the town, making Pateros the principal rail shipping narrowing between Oroville and Wenatchee. Pateros was officially incorporated upon May 1, 1913.

In 1962, the Federal Power Commission granted the Douglas County Public Utility District a 50-year license to construct and be active Wells Dam more or less 8 miles downstream of Pateros. Construction of the dam would flood much of the original city. The Pateros City Council trendy an present to relocate the town, and the PUD spent about US$1,000,000 on moving or demolishing buildings and improving the town’s infrastructure. Wells Dam went into operation in 1967. Despite relocation of the city, the population dropped by more or less a third from 1960 to 1970.

Much of Pateros was destroyed by the Carlton Complex wildfire upon July 17 and 18, 2014. No injuries or fatalities were reported, but at least 95 homes in the area were reported destroyed, along in the flavor of at least one business.