Outlook, Washington

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Outlook, Washington |settlement_type = Unincorporated community and CDP |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |map_caption = |pushpin_map = USA Washington Yakima County#USA Washington  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Washington |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Yakima  |government_footnotes = |government_type = Census Designated Place |established_title = |established_date =  |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_sq_mi =  |population_as_of = 2020 |population_footnotes = <ref name="Census2020PLLede"/> |population_total = 317 |population_density_sq_mi = auto  |timezone = Pacific (PST) |utc_offset = -8 |timezone_DST = PDT |utc_offset_DST = -7 |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> |elevation_ft = 778 |coordinates = {{coord|46|19|52|N|120|05|34|W|region:US-WA|display=inline,title}}  |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 98938 |area_code = 509 |blank_name = GNIS feature ID |blank_info = 2585016<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2585016}}</ref> |footnotes = }} '''Outlook''' is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census, Outlook had a population of 317.<ref name="Census2020PLLede">{{cite web|title=2020 Decennial Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171)|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=NAME%2CP1_001N&for=place%3A52285&in=state%3A53|website=United States Census Bureau|year=2021|access-date=March 13, 2026|df=mdy}}</ref> Outlook is located along Interstate 82 and U.S. Route 12 {{convert|4|mi|km}} west of Sunnyside. Outlook has a post office with ZIP code 98938.<ref>[http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=98938&Go=Go ZIP Code Lookup]</ref> ==Notable Citizens== Astronaut Bonnie Dunbar was born in Valley Memorial Hospital in Sunnyside, Washington<ref>{{Cite web |title=Outlook, WA {{!}} Data USA |url=https://datausa.io/profile/geo/outlook-wa |access-date=2025-10-06 |website=datausa.io |language=en}}</ref> but she grew up in Outlook<ref>[https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/happened/it-happened-here-outlook-native-bonnie-dunbar-washingtons-first-woman-in-space/article_8fa79eea-42b7-11e9-b490-ef152ca12034.html Yakima Herald. "It Happened Here: Bonnie Dunbar is Washington's first Woman in Space" May 10, 2019.]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/memorial-day-solemn-for-sunnyside-former-astronaut-bonnie-dunbar/article_1b58bcb2-26be-11e6-ae27-231ce58e66b7.html |work=Yakima Herald |title=Memorial Day solemn for Sunnyside, former astronaut Bonnie Dunbar |date=May 30, 2016 |first1= Mike |last1=Faulk}}</ref><ref>[https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/former-astronaut-dunbar-to-leave-as-ceo-of-museum-of-flight/ Seattle Times. "Former astronaut Dunbar to leave as CEO of Museum of Flight" April 16, 2010.]</ref> Dunbar wrote in her oral history that "the school I started out in, Outlook Elementary, went to eight grades. It was a very small rural school. I think there were probably twenty-two, twenty-three in my class all the way through eighth grade graduation."<ref>[https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Bonnie_Dunbar Engineering and Technology Wiki. "Oral History: Bonnie Dunbar"]</ref><ref>[https://www.historylink.org/File/9865 History Link. "Dunbar, Bonnie J." June 27, 2011.]</ref>

Internet cartoonist Scott Meyer was born and raised in Outlook.<ref>[http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2020/7/14/how-to-make-conversation-with-a-new-friend Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer. "How to Make Conversation with a New Friend. July 14, 2020]</ref>

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Yakima County, Washington Category:Unincorporated communities in Washington (state) Category:Census-designated places in Washington (state) Category:Census-designated places in Yakima County, Washington