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Cheney is a city in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 8,832 at the 2000 census. Eastern Washington University is located in Cheney. The Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League have held the majority of their summer training camps at EWU, from 1976-1985, and again from 1997 through the 2006 training camp.

Cheney is located at 47.488634, -117.578581, at an elevation of 2400 ft, or 732m.

Cheney is at the highest point on the railroads between Spokane and Portland, and sits atop the route of gentlest gradient from the Spokane Valley to the Columbia Plateau, which was the reason for much of its early growth and railroad activity. The town is built on rolling palouse hills overlooking channeled scablands carved out by the pre-historic Spokane Floods to the South and East. These scablands now host "pothole" lakes and wetlands, and are home to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Fairchild Air Force Base located approximately 7 miles north of Cheney and established in 1942, has been a key part of our nation’s defense strategy and its personnel are a substial portion of the Cheney community.

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