21 Facts About Bellingham Washington

City of Bellingham Washington, incorporated in 1903, consolidated four settlements: Bellingham Washington, Whatcom, Fairhaven, and Sehome.

Bellingham Washington is the homeland of Coast Salish peoples of the Lummi People and neighboring tribes.

Bellingham Washington was further south near Boulevard Park, founded in 1883 and purchased in 1890 by Fairhaven.

Bellingham Washington was the site of the Bellingham Washington riots against East Indian immigrant workers in 1907.

Bellingham Washington is 18 miles south of the US-Canada border and 50 miles southeast of Vancouver.

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Bellingham Washington's neighborhoods are Alabama Hill, Barkley, Birchwood, Columbia, Cordata, Cornwall Park, Downtown Central Business District, Edgemoor, Fairhaven, Happy Valley, Irongate, King Mountain, Lettered Streets, Meridian, Puget, Roosevelt, Samish, Sehome, Silver Beach, South, South Hill, Sunnyland, Whatcom Falls, WWU, and York.

Bellingham Washington's climate is generally mild and typical of the Puget Sound region.

Bellingham Washington was reported to have the lowest average sunshine amount of any city in the US.

South of the city of Bellingham Chuckanut Drive has cliffside views of the sea, the San Juan Islands and the Olympic Mountains, the hills and forests of the Chuckanut mountains, and several small bays along the edge of the Salish Sea.

Bellingham Washington is home to an active writers community at the local universities and independent of them.

Bellingham Washington waterfront has served as an industrial center for more than a century, starting with the arrival of Henry Roeder and Russell Peabody in the mid-1800s.

The Port of Bellingham Washington purchased the G-P site for $10 with the understanding that the port would assume liability for the contamination.

People of Bellingham Washington pursue a diverse range of amateur sports, with skiing and snowboarding at the Mount Baker Ski Area popular in the winter and kayaking and cycling in the summer.

Western Bellingham Washington University is home to NCAA Division II National Women's Rowing Champions.

Western Bellingham Washington University operates a collegiate road cycling program that took top-5 positions nationwide at the 2006 nationals.

Bellingham Washington has four public middle schools: Kulshan Middle School, Shuksan Middle School, Fairhaven Middle School, and Whatcom Middle School which was recently rebuilt after extensive fire damage in 2009.

Private schools in Bellingham Washington include Whatcom Hills Waldorf School, Whatcom Day Academy, St Paul's Academy, and Assumption Catholic School .

City of Bellingham Washington operates a public access channel available to Comcast cable customers on Channel 10.

Bellingham Washington is bisected by Interstate 5, which connects it to Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland, Oregon.

Alaska Airlines and Allegiant Air used to fly to Hawaii from Bellingham Washington, serving Honolulu, Kahului, and Kona at various times, but this service ceased by 2019.

Bellingham Washington maintains sister city relationships with five Pacific Rim port cities and Vaasa, Finland.