65 Facts About Everett Washington

Everett Washington became the county seat in 1897 after a dispute with Snohomish contested over several elections and a Supreme Court case.

Everett Washington remains a major employment center for Snohomish County, but has become a bedroom community for Seattle in recent decades.

Everett Washington gained its first businesses in early 1891, as the new settlement on the Snohomish River attracted land speculators and commitments to build lumber mills and other industrial enterprises.

Everett Washington voters approved a new city charter in 1912 that reorganized the city government into a three-commissioner council with a ceremonial mayor.

Everett Washington was home to local socialist groups and organizers, who published the Labor Journal and The Commonwealth on a weekly basis until 1914.

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Everett Washington experienced a major rise in unemployment as demand for lumber products dropped, with an estimated 32 percent of property taxes left unpaid in 1932.

Downtown Everett Washington continued to grow as the regional commercial center following the end of the war, with four large department stores and dozens of smaller retailers and restaurants in a six-block radius of Hewitt Avenue and Colby Avenue.

Downtown Everett Washington declined as an activity center as retailers and car dealerships moved to suburban areas, despite the opening of a large hotel and several high-rise office building.

Several new office buildings were completed in Downtown Everett Washington, including the 11-story Everett Washington Mutual Tower, and other historic buildings were renovated or restored.

Everett Washington was recognized as an All-America City by the National Civic League in 2002 and has been a member of the Tree City USA program since 1993.

Everett Washington was identified as a key transport hub under the regional Sound Transit system, which was approved in a ballot measure in 1996 after an earlier failed attempt.

Everett Washington remains home to one of the most congested stretches of I-5, which is among the worst in the United States for travel delays.

Downtown Everett Washington remained a center for new development in the 2000s and 2010s, with several projects completed by local governments and private developers.

Everett Washington is one of the core cities comprising the Seattle metropolitan area and is 25 miles north of Seattle.

Everett Washington's boundaries follow various housing subdivisions in the Eastmont area before reaching the Snohomish River, which forms the primary eastern border.

Everett Washington is near the Southern Whidbey Island Fault, a shallow earthquake fault zone that runs near the western edge of the city and was discovered in 1994.

The southwestern neighborhoods of Everett Washington include several ravines formed by local creeks that drain into Port Gardner Bay.

City of Everett Washington maintains an Office of Neighborhoods which facilitates communication between the city and recognized neighborhood associations.

Various neighborhoods in Everett Washington have views of the Cascade and Olympic mountains, including Mount Baker and Mount Rainier.

Downtown Everett Washington is generally defined as the area north of Pacific Avenue, east of West Marine View Drive, south of Everett Washington Avenue, and west of Broadway.

Everett Washington generally has an oceanic climate similar to most of the Puget Sound lowlands, with year-round moderate temperatures influenced by marine air masses.

Under the Koppen climate classification system, Everett Washington is described as having a warm-summer Mediterranean climate .

Everett Washington rarely receives significant snowfall and its highest total, 26.

Everett Washington's economy is centered around aerospace manufacturing, maritime activities, the technology sector, and the service industry.

Everett Washington's last remaining wood pulp mill, owned by Kimberly-Clark, shut down in April 2012 and was demolished a year later, marking the end of the lumber economy's dominance.

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The aerospace industry in Everett Washington began growing in the late 1960s after Boeing began constructing its assembly plant at Paine Field, bringing suppliers and subcontractors to the area.

The Port of Everett Washington has developed its own industrial park in North Everett Washington that is home to an aerospace supplier and distribution centers for Amazon and FedEx.

Approximately 28 percent of Everett Washington workers are employed at businesses within the city limits, while 15 percent commute to Seattle.

Everett Washington workplaces have employees who live across Snohomish and King counties, with 15 percent from within the city, 7 percent from Marysville, 5 percent from Seattle, and 4 percent from Lake Stevens.

Everett Washington's population grew by 47 percent from 1990 to 2000 and 13 percent from 2000 to 2010, due to annexations and increased housing development.

Everett Washington has a municipal court that was established in 1987 and has two judges who are elected to four-year terms.

Everett Washington is the county seat of Snohomish County and houses several major government facilities on a campus in Downtown Everett Washington.

At the federal level, Everett Washington is part of the 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Rick Larsen since 2001.

Everett Washington is part of the Snohomish County Council's 2nd district, which includes Mukilteo and the Tulalip Indian Reservation.

Everett Washington is described as a "largely blue-collar city", but is home to a regional arts scene that includes galleries, community theaters, music, and artwork.

The Everett Washington Theatre is the last surviving theater from the era, having been partially rebuilt following a fire in December 1923, renovated into a triplex theater in 1979, closed in 1989, and restored to its original state beginning in 2000.

The regional Village Theatre performs in Issaquah and at the Everett Washington Performing Arts Center, a city-owned facility that opened in 1993 and is home to the Everett Washington Chorale.

The Everett Washington area has attracted artists and musicians from Seattle due to its relative affordability and incentives from the city government.

Everett Washington has hosted a downtown sausage and street festival annually in September since 1977.

Everett Washington area has several major tourist attractions, particularly those themed around aviation.

My Everett Washington News is an independent online news outlet for Everett Washington that was established in 2011 and is affiliated with The Seattle Times.

Everett Washington is the home to KWYZ-AM, a Korean language news and entertainment station that launched in 1997 and is broadcast from Federal Way.

Everett Washington is home to 14 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Everett Washington is home to two sports venues that are used by professional minor league teams and for other events.

Everett Washington has hosted several minor league soccer teams, including the Everett Washington BigFoot of the third-division USISL Pro League, who began play in 1995 and moved to West Seattle in 1997.

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Everett Washington has more than 40 parks, trails, golf courses, and playgrounds maintained by the city government's Parks and Recreation Department.

The Port of Everett Washington has a large public marina and its own boat launch at 10th Street that serves a ferry to Jetty Island.

The state and county governments maintain their own parks in the Everett Washington area, including the jointly maintained Spencer Island Regional Park.

Forest Park, located southwest of Downtown Everett Washington, is the largest park in the city system at 197 acres .

Largest park in North Everett Washington is American Legion Memorial Park, a 140-acre open space on the peninsula's northwest bluff at the site of a former Snohomish village and smelter.

The southern and western neighborhoods of Everett Washington are served by the Mukilteo School District, which has its own high school in the area.

Everett Washington area is home to several private school systems operated by religious organizations and independent educators, including those that cater to commuters from around the county.

Civic and business leaders from the Everett Washington area began lobbying the state legislature for a four-year college in the 1990s, proposing a branch of an existing state college to serve Snohomish, Island, and Skagit counties.

In 2007, the state legislature authorized planning funds for a UW branch campus in Snohomish County and a site near Everett Washington Station was named as a finalist alongside candidates in Lake Stevens and Marysville.

Washington State University Everett opened in 2017 as a branch campus of WSU and is adjacent to the EvCC campus in North Everett.

Everett Washington is home to several private and specialized colleges, including City University and Everest College near the Everett Washington Mall.

Everett Washington has several public transit and intercity transport services that intersect at Everett Washington Station, a multimodal train and bus station that opened in 2002.

Everett Washington is the northern terminus of the Sounder commuter rail system, which is operated by Sound Transit and travels south to Seattle during peak hours with stops in Mukilteo and Edmonds.

The countywide Community Transit system, based in Everett Washington, connects to surrounding cities and operates a commuter bus network.

Everett Washington was connected with Seattle by an interurban railway from 1910 to 1939, with the right-of-way later used for the Interurban Trail.

Electric power for Everett Washington is provided by the Snohomish County Public Utility District, a consumer-owned public utility that serves all of Snohomish County and derives 90 percent of its electricity from hydropower.

City of Everett Washington maintains a tap water system that supplies 80 percent of Snohomish County through interlocal agreements with other municipalities and water districts.

Everett Washington is based in Everett at a building near the Boeing Factory that was completed in 1981 for GTE.

The building originally opened for Group Health in 1994 to consolidate its three clinics in Everett Washington and is being expanded with a new building that began construction in 2020.

The non-profit Community Health Center of Snohomish County operates four medical clinics in Everett Washington, providing services to primarily low-income and uninsured patients.

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