29 Facts About Lynnwood WA

Lynnwood WA is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

Lynnwood WA area was logged and settled by homesteaders in the late 19th century and early 20th century, including the development of Alderwood Manor as a planned farming community.

Lynnwood WA, named for the wife of a realtor, emerged in the late 1940s around the intersection of Highway 99 and 196th Street Southwest.

Lynnwood WA gained its first post office in 1948, after a successful lobbying campaign by the Lynnwood WA Commercial Club to the federal Post Office Department.

Lynnwood WA began offering municipal services in its first years, opening a sewage treatment plant, a public park, new streets, and acquiring a water system from the Alderwood Water District.

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Lynnwood WA began developing plans for a "city center" near the Alderwood Mall area in the 1980s.

The City of Lynnwood WA formally adopted its City Center Subarea Plan in 2007, outlining plans to re-develop a 300-acre area between Lynnwood WA Transit Center and Alderwood Mall into a central business district.

The city's urban growth area includes Alderwood Manor and part of North Lynnwood WA, extending east to Locust Way and Mill Creek, and north to the Mukilteo UGA at 148th Street Southwest.

Lynnwood WA is situated 300 to 600 feet on a plateau above Puget Sound, which lies to the city's west, and consists of several hills and valleys.

Main retail and commercial corridor of the city is the "Lynnwood WA Triangle", bordered to the east by Interstate 5, to the south by Southwest 196th Street, and to the west by 44th Avenue West.

The largest industry of employment for Lynnwood WA workers are educational services and health care, with approximately 23 percent, followed by retail, food services, and professional services .

The largest industry in Lynnwood WA is the services sector, with approximately 45 percent of workers, followed by retail and education .

Lynnwood WA has a relatively low overall crime rate compared to cities of the same size in Washington state, but ranks high for property crime, particularly larceny attributed to the nearby Alderwood Mall.

At the federal level, Lynnwood WA has been part of Washington's 2nd congressional district since 2012, represented by Democrat Rick Larsen.

Lynnwood WA is wholly part of the Snohomish County Council's 3rd district, alongside Edmonds and Woodway.

Public schools in Lynnwood WA are operated by the Edmonds School District, which serves the cities of Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace, and Woodway.

Lynnwood WA has several private schools, both religious and secular, including The Soundview School, St, Thomas More Parish, and the Brighton School.

City of Lynnwood WA has over 350 acres of open space in 19 community and neighborhood parks, as well as 14 miles of recreational trails.

Central Lynnwood WA has two major parks: the Scriber Lake nature reserve; and Wilcox Park, the first park in the city, established in 1962.

Lynnwood WA is part of the Seattle–Tacoma media market, and is served by Seattle-based media outlets including The Seattle Times; broadcast television stations KOMO-TV, KING-TV, KIRO-TV, and KCPQ-TV; and various radio stations.

Lynnwood WA opened its municipal library in 1971, contracting services to the regional Sno-Isle Libraries district.

Lynnwood WA residents voted in 2006 to be annexed into the Sno-Isle Libraries district, approving an expansion and modernization that took place in 2013.

Lynnwood WA has one property listed on the National Register of Historic Places : Keeler's Korner, an automobile service station built in 1927 on Highway 99 at 164th Street Southwest.

Lynnwood WA is located at the northern junction of Interstate 5 and Interstate 405, the two primary north–south freeways in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Lynnwood WA has two additional state highways: State Route 99, running north to Everett and south to Seattle; and State Route 524, connecting to Edmonds in the west as 196th Street Southwest.

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Public transportation in Lynnwood WA is provided by Community Transit, which serves most of Snohomish County, and Sound Transit, the regional system serving the entire metropolitan area.

Electric power in Lynnwood WA is provided by the Snohomish County Public Utility District, a consumer-owned public utility that serves all of Snohomish County.

Puget Sound Energy provides natural gas service to the city; Lynnwood WA is the terminus of a minor gas pipeline operated by the Northwest Pipeline Company.

The water district serves the unincorporated areas around Lynnwood WA and operates Well Number 5, an artesian well in North Lynnwood WA that has gained popularity for its quality.