33 Facts About Tacoma

Tacoma is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third-largest in the state.

Tacoma serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million.

Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally and locally called Takhoma or Tahoma.

The city gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname "Galloping Gertie".

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Carr hoped to profit from the selection of Commencement Bay as the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad, and sold most of his claim to developer Morton M McCarver, who named his project Tacoma City, derived from the indigenous name for the mountain.

Tacoma was briefly a major destination for big-time automobile racing, with one of the nation's top-rated racing venues just outside the city limits, at the site of today's Clover Park Technical College.

In one of the coldest winters on record, Tacoma experienced mass power outages and eventually the shutdown of major power supply dams, leaving the city without sufficient power and heat.

Tacoma's Hooverville grew in 1924 as the homeless community settled on the waterfront.

Tacoma was featured prominently in the garage rock sound of the mid-1960s with bands including The Wailers and The Sonics.

Downtown Tacoma experienced a long decline through the mid-20th century.

In 1998, Tacoma installed a high-speed fiber optic network throughout the community.

Tacoma's succeeded Marilyn Strickland, who was elected in 2009, becoming Tacoma's first African-American female mayor.

Tacoma's replaced former manager T C Broadnax, who was appointed to the office in January 2012 and left in 2017 to become the city manager of Dallas, Texas.

Tacoma is the home of several international companies, including staffing company True Blue Inc, lumber company Simpson, and the food companies Roman Meal and Brown and Haley.

Hospitals in Tacoma are operated by MultiCare Health System and Franciscan Health System.

Parks and recreation services in and around Tacoma are governed by Metro Parks Tacoma, a municipal corporation established as a separate entity from the city government in 1907.

Jefferson Park in North Tacoma is the location of a new sprayground, an area designed to be a safe and unique play area where water is sprayed from structures or ground sprays and then drained away before it can accumulate.

Tacoma includes several landmarks and was home to prolific architects, including Everett Phipps Babcock, Frederick Heath, Ambrose J Russell, and Silas E Nelsen.

The Tacoma Narrows Bridges link Tacoma to Gig Harbor and the Kitsap Peninsula.

The failure of the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world, is a famous case study in architecture textbooks.

Tacoma has many properties that are listed on the City of Tacoma Register of Historic Places, the Washington State Heritage Register, and the National Register of Historic Places.

Tacoma is home to three charter public schools: SOAR Academy, Green Dot Destiny and Summit Olympus school.

Tacoma School of the Arts, opened in 2001 in downtown Tacoma, is an arts-focused high school that serves as a national model for educational innovation.

SOTA is in multiple venues around Downtown Tacoma and uses Community Museums and Universities for instructional space.

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SAMI and SOTA are the only schools in Tacoma to offer University of Washington in the Classroom college credit options from the University of Washington.

Tacoma is the setting for the American comedy television series Tacoma FD on truTV.

At one point, the Tacoma Dome was home to a professional indoor soccer team, the Tacoma Stars.

The Tacoma Dome hosted the 1988 and 1989 Women's NCAA Final Four.

Tacoma is home to the all-female flat track roller derby league Dockyard Derby Dames, which fields an away team.

Tacoma does have some major roads which do not seem to follow any naming rules.

Public transportation in Tacoma includes buses, commuter rail, light rail, and ferries.

Tacoma Water provides customers in its service area with water from the Green River Watershed.