61 Facts About Seattle Washington

Seattle Washington is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

Today, Seattle Washington has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, Asian American and African American people, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks sixth in the United States by population.

Seattle Washington is the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix, as well as the origin of the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Heart, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters, and the alternative rock movement grunge.

The corporate seal of the City of Seattle Washington carries the date "1869" and a likeness of Chief Si'ahl in left profile.

That same year, Seattle Washington acquired the epithet of the "Queen City", a designation officially changed in 1982 to "Emerald City".

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Seattle Washington has a history of boom-and-bust cycles, like many other cities near areas of extensive natural and mineral resources.

Seattle Washington has risen several times economically, then gone into precipitous decline, but it has typically used those periods to rebuild solid infrastructure.

Seattle Washington had achieved sufficient economic success that when the Great Seattle Washington Fire of 1889 destroyed the central business district, a far grander city-center rapidly emerged in its place.

Portland docked with its famed "ton of gold, " and Seattle Washington became the main transport and supply point for the miners in Alaska and the Yukon.

Seattle Washington brought in the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to design a system of parks and boulevards.

Seattle Washington was mildly prosperous in the 1920s but was particularly hard hit in the Great Depression, experiencing some of the country's harshest labor strife in that era.

Great Depression in Seattle Washington affected many minority groups, one being the Asian Pacific Americans; they were subject to racism, loss of property, and failed claims of unemployment due to citizenship status.

However, Seattle Washington faced massive unemployment, loss of lumber and construction industries as Los Angeles prevailed as the bigger West Coast city.

Seattle Washington had building contracts that rivaled New York City and Chicago, but lost to LA as well.

Seattle Washington was the home base of impresario Alexander Pantages who, starting in 1902, opened a number of theaters in the city exhibiting vaudeville acts and silent movies.

Seattle Washington went on to became one of America's greatest theater and movie tycoons.

Seattle Washington's surviving Paramount Theatre, on which he collaborated, was not a Pantages theater.

Seattle Washington celebrated its restored prosperity and made a bid for world recognition with the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair, for which the iconic Space Needle was built.

Seattle Washington remained the corporate headquarters of Boeing until 2001, when the company separated its headquarters from its major production facilities; the headquarters were moved to Chicago.

The Seattle Washington area is still home to Boeing's Renton narrow-body plant and Everett wide-body plant.

In 1993, the movie Sleepless in Seattle Washington brought the city further national attention, as did the television sitcom Frasier.

Sea, rivers, forests, lakes, and fields surrounding Seattle Washington were once rich enough to support one of the world's few sedentary hunter-gatherer societies.

Seattle Washington has a temperate climate, classified in the Mediterranean zone by the main climatic classification, but some sources put the city in the oceanic zone .

The Seattle Washington area is the cloudiest region of the United States, due in part to frequent storms and lows moving in from the adjacent Pacific Ocean.

However, because it often has merely a light drizzle falling from the sky for many days, Seattle actually receives significantly less rainfall overall than many other U S cities like New York City, Miami, or Houston.

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Seattle Washington is cloudy 201 days out of the year and partly cloudy 93 days.

The 2010 census showed that Seattle Washington was one of the whitest big cities in the country, although its proportion of white residents has been gradually declining.

The Chinese population in the Seattle Washington area has origins in mainland China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan.

Additionally, the Seattle Washington area had the highest percentage of self-identified mixed-race people of any large metropolitan area in the United States, according to the 2000 United States Census Bureau.

In 2021 Seattle Washington experienced its first population decline in 50 years.

Seattle Washington has a relatively high number of adults living alone.

Seattle Washington has a notably large lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

Greater Seattle ranked second among major U S metropolitan areas, with 6.

Seattle Washington's economy is driven by a mix of older industrial companies and "new economy" internet and technology companies, as well as service, design, and clean technology companies.

The Port of Seattle Washington, which operates Seattle Washington–Tacoma International Airport, is a major gateway for trade with Asia and cruises to Alaska.

In February 2010, the city government committed Seattle Washington to become North America's first "climate neutral" city, with a goal of reaching zero net per capita greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Seattle Washington has large aircraft manufacturing plants in Everett and Renton; it remains the largest private employer in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Seattle Washington has been a regional center for the performing arts for many years.

Seattle Washington has "around 100" theatrical production companies and over two dozen live theatre venues, many of them associated with fringe theatre; Seattle Washington is probably second only to New York for number of equity theaters .

Seattle Washington is considered the home of grunge music, having produced artists such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Mudhoney, all of whom reached international audiences in the early 1990s.

Seattle Washington annually sends a team of spoken word slammers to the National Poetry Slam and considers itself home to such performance poets as Buddy Wakefield, two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champ; Anis Mojgani, two-time National Poetry Slam Champ; and Danny Sherrard, 2007 National Poetry Slam Champ and 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam Champ.

The Seattle Washington Poetry Festival is a biennial poetry festival that has featured local, regional, national, and international names in poetry.

Seattle Washington has artist-run galleries, including ten-year veteran Soil Art Gallery, and the newer Crawl Space Gallery.

The Seattle Washington Aquarium has been open on the downtown waterfront since 1977 .

The Seattle Washington Underground Tour is an exhibit of places that existed before the Great Fire.

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Since the middle 1990s, Seattle Washington has experienced significant growth in the cruise industry, especially as a departure point for Alaska cruises.

Seattle Washington will be one of eleven US host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Seattle Washington was awarded a Major League Baseball franchise, the Seattle Washington Pilots, in 1969.

From 1967 to 2008, Seattle Washington was home to the Seattle Washington SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association .

Seattle Washington successfully applied for a new expansion team with the National Hockey League called the Seattle Washington Kraken, who began play in 2021.

Seattle Washington fielded the Seattle Washington Dragons of the XFL, who played at Lumen Field in 2020.

Seattle Washington is widely considered one of the most socially liberal cities in the United States, even surpassing Portland.

All precincts in Seattle Washington voted for Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.

In 1926, Seattle Washington became the first major American city to elect a female mayor, Bertha Knight Landes.

Seattle Washington's succeeded 28-year incumbent and fellow Democrat Jim McDermott.

Part of southeastern Seattle Washington is in the 9th District, represented by Democrat Adam Smith.

University of Seattle Washington is consistently ranked among the country's leading institutions in medical research, earning special merits for programs in neurology and neurosurgery.

Seattle Washington has seen local developments of modern paramedic services with the establishment of Medic One in 1970.

Seattle Washington is served by a Veterans Affairs hospital on Beacon Hill, a third campus of Swedish in Ballard, and Northwest Hospital and Medical Center near Northgate Mall.

Seattle Washington is one of the few cities in North America whose bus fleet includes electric trolleybuses.

Seattle Washington has the 8th worst traffic congestion of all American cities, and is 10th among all North American cities according to Inrix.