{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Wellpinit, Washington | native_name = sčecuwe | native_name_lang = spo | settlement_type = Unincorporated community | nickname = | motto = <!-- Images --> | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_caption = | image_flag = | image_seal = <!-- Maps --> | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | image_map1 = | mapsize1 = | map_caption1 = | pushpin_map = Washington
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<!-- Area/postal codes & others -->| postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code = 509 | blank_name = GNIS feature ID | blank_info = 1512786<ref>{{gnis|1512786}}</ref> | blank1_name = | blank1_info = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Wellpinit''' ({{Langx|spo|sčecuwe}})<ref name="Places">{{cite web |title=Local Places |url=https://www.spokanelanguageculture.com/local-places |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260411094429/https://www.spokanelanguageculture.com/local-places |archive-date=April 11, 2026 |access-date=May 29, 2026 |website=snxʷmeneʔ nqʷlqʷeltn |publisher=Spokane Tribe of Indians}}</ref> is an unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington, United States. Wellpinit has a post office with ZIP code 99040.<ref>[http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe? cnty=cnty&zip=99040&Go=Go ZIP Code Lookup]</ref> It is the setting of the young adult novel, ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'' by Sherman Alexie. The population of the ZIP Code Tabulation Area for 99040 was 930 at the 2000 census.<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>
The community is located on the Spokane Indian Reservation. It is served by the Wellpinit School District, which has a high school and middle school.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hanlon |first=James |date=March 27, 2023 |title=Students at Wellpinit, overwhelmingly Native American school district, vote to keep 'redskins' as mascot |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/mar/27/students-at-wellpinit-overwhelmingly-native-americ/ |work=The Spokesman-Review |accessdate=July 31, 2025}}</ref>
==Notable residents==
*Sherman Alexie – Spokane author and filmmaker<ref>{{cite news |last=Barcott |first=Bruce |date=November 11, 2007 |title=Off the Rez |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Barcott3-t.html |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited |accessdate=July 31, 2025}}</ref>
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{{Stevens County, Washington}}
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