Felony Flats

Felony Flats is a derogatory nickname of areas in several cities in the Western United States historically perceived to have high crime rates. They are usually near a river or creek with corresponding flat area—"Flats" is not related to the Commonwealth term meaning "Apartments".
*Aberdeen, Washington's Felony Flats, beside the Wishkah River, best known as the childhood home of Kurt Cobain
*Part of Spokane, Washington's West Central neighborhood, near the Spokane River
*Vancouver-Camas, Washington, near the Columbia River
*North side of Wasilla, Alaska near Mile 49 on the George Parks Highway
*An area within south-east Portland, Oregon, loosely defined as encompassing neighborhoods such as Foster-Powell and Lents.
In some North American cities, neighborhoods with predominantly poor inhabitants are known as skid row. The similarly disparaging term "" was bestowed on many Western US towns, including what later became Dunsmuir, California, Redding, California, Wolf Point, Montana, and Moab, Utah. A fictional Northern California mining town called Poverty Flat was depicted in the 1915 movie The Lily of Poverty Flat, based on the Bret Harte book of the same name, and shot near Santa Cruz, California.

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