Department of the Pacific had six subordinate military districts during the Civil War: On July 27, 1865 the Military Division of the Pacific was created under Major General Henry W. Halleck, replacing the Department of the Pacific, consisting of the Department of the Columbia that now consisted of the state of Oregon and the territories of Washington and Idaho and the expanded Department of California that now consisted of the states of California and Nevada and the Territory of New Mexico and Territory of Arizona. On 30 May 1898, Gen. Wesley Merritt established in San Francisco the Headquarters, US Expeditionary Forces and Department of
Washington State Route 510 also became (I-5) in 1968. SR 510 between I-5 and Pacific Avenue was reconstructed and widened in late 2003, with the addition of a roundabout at the Pacific Avenue intersection. The I-5 interchange will be replaced in 2020 with a diverging diamond interchange that began construction in October 2018. The interchange will be the first diverging diamond constructed in Washington and is estimated to cost $72 million, with funding provided by the state legislature's 2015 Connecting Washington package. State Route 510 Alternate, also known as the Yelm Loop, is a partially completed bypass of Yelm. The first, section opened to