[2] The history of the area is complicated because there are at five or six different community names applied to at least three locations in close proximity to each other all dating to about the same era.

[2] Scheduled Rail service of the Northern Pacific Railway from Tacoma to Kalama began on January 5, 1874.

[4] The bill didn't pass congress, but on September 8, 1883, the Last spike was driven at Gold Creek, Montana to close the gap in the Rocky Mountain Division section of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

There is no good record of when the move was made, but the Hunters post office was closed to Reuben in October 1893,[2] and Goble was platted in 1891.

[3] Before there was a railroad bridge between Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington, Goble was the site of an important train ferry.

[6] The ferry, named The Tacoma, was reassembled in Portland and it transported trains across the Columbia first from Hunters and later from Goble to Kalama, Washington from 1884 until 1908.

[7] While Rainier is most often cited as the home of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, it is actually closer to Goble and Prescott.