Snohomish County

administration
Snohomish County Government Campus
US state :	Washington
Administrative headquarters :	Everett
Foundation :	1881
Demographics
Residents :	713,335 (2010)
Population density :	131.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	5689 km²
Water surface :	278 km²
map

Website : www1.co.snohomish.wa.us

Snohomish County is a county in the metropolitan area of Seattle in the US state of Washington in the United States . 713,335 (2010) inhabitants lived here. The county seat is in Everett .

The Beckler River

The Big Four Mountain near Granite Falls

The Andrew Carnegie Library in Edmonds , built in 1910, has been a museum since 1973 ( NRHP ID No. 73001887 )

The Trafton School building in Arlington , built in 1912 ( NRHP ID No. 06000730 )

Snohomish County

geography

The county covers an area of 5,689 square kilometers, of which 5,411 square kilometers are land and 278 square kilometers (4.89 percent) are water.

To the west, the county lies on the Puget Sound Bay . Here the landscape is flat. In the southwest of the county are the two 40,000-inhabitant cities Edmonds and Lynnwood , which are strongly integrated into the greater Seattle area. The adjacent Bothell is only partially part of Snohomish County. The much smaller town of Woodway in the far southwest of the county was founded in 1958 only to forestall a possible incorporation into Edmonds. It was created by subdividing a coastal forest into exclusively large plots, so that it has the highest per capita income (status: 2010 census) in the county.

The east, however, is mountainous and hardly populated. The highest mountain is the 3,123 meter high Glacier Peak , an active stratovolcano of the Cascade Range .

Two rivers flow into the sea in the county area:

The Snohomish River flows into Port Gardner Bay , part of Puget Sound , between Everett and Marysville . Under this name, it is only 20 miles long, and a major tributary from the county is the Skykomish River . Lake Roesiger east of Everett, which is a popular destination for excursions, also belongs to its river system .

The Stillaguamish River flows further north into Port Susan , also part of Port Gardner Bay . It consists of a north and a south arm, which unite at Arlington for the last 35 kilometers. The most important tributary of the northern arm is the Boulder River, which rises in the Cascade Range .

history

The county name refers to the Snohomish Indian tribe who used to live in the area.

The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, a forerunner of the Homestead Act , opened the land to white settlers. After the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855, the Indians had to move to reservations. This is how the Tulalip Indian Reservation was created , in which around 10,000 people live on 91 km² between the coast and Interstate 5 .

The county was founded in 1861. The administrative seat was the town of Snohomish , founded in 1858 (until 1871 Cadyville ). In 1897 she lost this position to Everett.

The Monte Cristo settlement , which experienced a brief boom in 1893 with 1,200 inhabitants, is now a ghost town .

In 1953 the military Jim Creek Naval Radio Station was built, through which commands can be transmitted to submerged submarines ever since.

Large parts of the Oso settlement were destroyed in a landslide in 2014, killing over 40 people.

Also in 2014 there was a rampage at Pilchuck High School in the city of Marysville , which briefly made the city known nationwide.

Airport and Boeing factory

The Paine Field , also known as Paine Field, opened the 1936th The directly adjacent Boeing Everett plant has existed since 1968 and today has the largest assembly hall in the world.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1870	599	-
1880	1387	131.6%
1890	8514	513.8%
1900	23,950	181.3%
1910	59.209	147.2%
1920	67,690	14.3%
1930	78,861	16.5%
1940	88,754	12.5%
1950	111,580	25.7%
1960	172.199	54.3%
1970	265.236	54%
1980	337.720	27.3%
1990	465,642	37.9%
2000	606.024	30.1%
2010	713.335	17.7%
Before 1900 1900-1990 2000 Age pyramid of Snohomish County (as of 2000)

The county had 606,024 people as of the 2000 census . There were 224,852 households and 157,846 families. The population density was 112 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 85.63% White, 1.67% African American, 1.36% Native American, 5.78% Asian, 0.28% Pacific Islander, and 1.92% other races Groups; 3.36% were from two or more races. 4.72% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 224,852 households, 37.30% had children and adolescents under the age of 18 living with them. 56.00% were married couples living together, 9.80% were single mothers. 29.80% were not families. 22.60% are single households and 6.50% have someone living there who is 65 years of age or over. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.13.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 27.40% of residents under 18 years of age, 8.50% between 18 and 24 years of age, 33.00% between 25 and 44 years of age, 22.00% between 45 and 64 years of age 9.10% were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 100.10 males, and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 98.20 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 53,060 , and the median income for a family is $ 60,726. Males had a median income of $ 43,293 versus $ 31,386 for females. The per capita income was $ 23,417. 6.90% of the population and 4.90% of families are below the poverty line. 7.60% of them were under 18 years of age and 7.80% were 65 years of age or older.

Individual evidence

^ Snohomish County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011

↑ A Short History of the Town of Woodway ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, English) @1@ 2

^ 1 confirmed dead, several injured in shooting at Washington state high school . In: Fox News , October 24, 2014. Retrieved October 24, 2014.

↑ Richie Duchon, Sofia Jaramillo: Washington High School Shooting Victim Gia Soriano Dies: Official . Retrieved October 26, 2014.

↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
↑ Excerpt from factfinder.census.gov.Retrieved February 28, 2011

Web links

Commons : Snohomish County - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Entry in the Washington encyclopedia HistoryLink (English)

48.04 -121.71Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ N , 121 ° 43 ′ W

[1] Snohomish County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011