Edmonds, Washington Edmonds, Washington City of Edmonds The Washington State Ferries dock in Edmonds The Washington State Ferries dock in Edmonds Official seal of Edmonds, Washington Location of Edmonds, Washington Location of Edmonds, Washington Edmonds is a town/city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States, and is a Northern Suburb of Seattle positioned 11 miles (18 km) north of the city.
Edmonds has a view of Puget Sound and both the Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range.
The third most crowded city in Snohomish County after Everett and Marysville, the populace was 39,709 as stated to the 2010 census and the estimated populace in 2015 was 40,490. Based on per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Edmonds rates 20th of 281 areas in the state of Washington. Edmonds is a port in the Washington State Ferries system.
Currently, the only ferry from Edmonds is a run to Kingston, Washington; in the past, there have been much longer routes from Edmonds to Port Townsend, Washington. 6.2 Edmonds Arts Festival Edmonds is the earliest incorporated town/city in Snohomish County.
Logger George Brackett established Edmonds in 1890, naming the town/city either for Vermont Sen.
George Franklin Edmunds or in association with the close-by Point Edmund, titled by Charles Wilkes in 1841 and later changed to Point Edwards. Brackett came to the future site of Edmonds while paddling a canoe north of Seattle, searching for timber.
The town was titled Edmonds in 1884, but was not incorporated until 1890 as an official "village fourth class" of Snohomish County.
By 1900 there was regular traveler ferry service available by the steam-powered "mosquito fleet" of private ferryboats from Edmonds to Seattle.
As more roads were established, Edmonds experienced steady expansion along with commercial and residentiary development. The Edmonds-South Snohomish County Historical Society resides in the city's only National Historic Place - the old Carnegie Library of Edmonds. Located on 5th Ave, it was assembled in 1910 to serve as a library and town/city hall, and opened to the enhance February 17, 1911. It now serves as the Edmonds Historical Museum.
The Edmonds Fountain/Gazebo The Edmonds fountain.
The Edmonds Fountain, a small-town landmark, has been a primary source of contention over the past decades.
The current Edmonds Fountain is positioned in the center of the intersection of 5th Avenue and Main St.
Located in the extreme southwest corner of Snohomish County, Edmonds is bounded by King County on the south and Puget Sound on the west.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.42 square miles (47.71 km2), of which, 8.90 square miles (23.05 km2) is territory and 9.52 square miles (24.66 km2) is water. According to a 2009 estimate, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $66,892 and the per capita income for the town/city was $42,432. About 2.6% of families and 4.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.9% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 20.6% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Edmonds is served in its entirety by the Edmonds School District, which also serves Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Brier, and Woodway.
Within the town/city limits of Edmonds, there is one high school (Edmonds-Woodway) and six major schools (Chase Lake, Edmonds, Seaview, Sherwood, Westgate, and Woodway).
The Edmonds School District recently sold the plot of territory that was home to Woodway Elementary School and it is now the home of the alternative high school, Scriber Lake High School.
In addition, Edmonds is served by two K-8 schools; Maplewood and Madrona. In 1990, Edmonds High School consolidated with Woodway High School to form Edmonds-Woodway High School, which is presently one of only eight schools in the state to host an IB Diploma Programme. Edmonds hosts a range of parks, including a dog park, a small skate park, a salt marsh and the Edmonds Underwater Park.
Edmonds Marsh is one of the several remaining urban saltwater estuaries in the Puget Sound region and is the first station on the Cascade Loop of Audubon Washington's Great Washington State Birding Trail. In addition, Edmonds has one of the biggest marine facilities in Snohomish County, the Port of Edmonds.
In 2006, the Edmonds Center for the Arts was opened. This is one of two current theaters available for general performing arts, the other being the theater at Mountlake Terrace High School.
The Cascadia Art Museum, positioned in downtown Edmonds, opened in September 2015. Edmonds has one permanent, privately funded drama group, Edmonds Driftwood Players.
Edmonds Arts Festival Since 1957, Edmonds has annually hosted the Edmonds Arts Festival, a three-day art exhibit, on Father's Day weekend. The festival is especially noted for painting and drawing.
Every year the Edmonds Rotary sponsors the Edmonds Jazz Connection festival, on Memorial Day Weekend in May.
It includes sports facilities, child-care programs, art classes, and is directly contiguous to the Edmonds Library.
The Edmonds Arts Festival is also held at the Frances Anderson Center.
The Edmonds improve is home to a weekly news printed announcement the Edmonds Beacon.
The Edmonds Museum Summer Market, sponsored by the Edmonds-South Snohomish County Historical Society, is held each Saturday from May to September.
Edmonds has one sister city: Edmonds is a rail and ferry hub.
Edmonds Amtrak station is served by Amtrak Cascades and Empire Builder trains to Vancouver, British Columbia, Eugene, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois.
Edmonds "Ferry service between Port Townsend and Edmonds returns, after a 40-year absence, on February 21, 1979.".
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