Mukilteo, Washington City of Mukilteo Location of Mukilteo, Washington Location of Mukilteo, Washington The Whidbey Island Ferry terminal in Mukilteo, Washington Mukilteo (/ m k l ti o / muk- l-tee-oh), which means "good camping ground," is a coastline town/city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.
It is on the shore of the Puget Sound, and is the site of a Washington State Ferries terminal linking it to Clinton, on Whidbey Island.
Based on per capita income, Mukilteo rates 29th of 522 areas in the state of Washington.
In 2009, Mukilteo was ranked as number 10 of Money Magazine's top 100 small suburbs of America to live in. In 2011, Mukilteo rose one project to number 9. Although the word Mukilteo is widely believed to mean "good camping site," the History - Link.org site notes that in the Snohomish dialect Muk-wil-teo means "narrow passage," a reference to the sand spit that formed the initial Mukilteo landing. Mukilteo was officially incorporated on May 8, 1947, but the town/city has a historic part in the evolution of the Puget Sound.
It was at Mukilteo that the Point Elliott Treaty was signed between Governor Isaac Stevens and the chiefs of 22 Puget Sound tribes on January 22, 1855.
The treaty ceded territory to the United States from Point Pully (now called Three Tree Point south of Seattle) to the British (Canada) border in exchange for a range of benefits, including land, education, community care and hunting and fishing rights.
According to the Mukilteo Historical Society, the town became the first settled by Europeans in 1858 and was the temporary governmental center of county of Snohomish County for a several months in 1861 after Snohomish County was created from Island County.
The town/city of Snohomish was designated as governmental center of county in July 1861.
In its early years, Mukilteo was a fishing village, trading post, and a port-of-entry.
The next year, the federal Lighthouse Board decided to put a light and fog signal at the point in Mukilteo.
Even at incorporation in 1947, nearly a century after the Point Elliott Treaty, Mukilteo's populace stood at only 775.
The first expansion spurt for the town/city came with the 1980 annexation of an extra 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2) to the south along the Mukilteo Speedway or SR 525, which increased the populace to 4,130 citizens .
In 1991, the Harbour Pointe region was annexed, doubling the size of the town/city to 6.25 square miles (16.19 km2).
The annexation increased the city's populace to just over 10,000 and also presaged a shift from the Old Town commercial center near the ferry to new shopping and banking facilities at Harbour Pointe.
With evolution since the Harbour Pointe annexation, the city's populace has reached 19,360 (2005).
The primary parkland in the town/city is the former state park and lighthouse, next to the ferry harbors.
In 2003, the state faced a budgetary crisis and offered to cede the park to the city, which the town/city accepted.
The town/city retitled the park Mukilteo Lighthouse Park and has plans for redevelopment that may ultimately spend $6 million for new facilities.
In 1992, the government of Mukilteo opposed plans to grew Paine Field; Mayor Brian Sullivan said that the town/city disagrees "with the idea of a Sea-Tac north" and supports upholding a 1978 agreement between inhabitants around Paine Field and Snohomish County. Harbour Pointe is a mixed-use neighborhood at the south end of Mukilteo on territory originally owned by Port Gamble Lumber Co.
A parcel of 460 acres (1.9 km2) that would turn into Picnic Point Park, just south of the city's border, was leased to Snohomish County in 1970.
The Mukilteo School District contains all of the city, but also a portion of south Everett and unincorporated areas to the south of the city.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.50 square miles (24.60 km2), of which, 6.40 square miles (16.58 km2) is territory and 3.10 square miles (8.03 km2) is water. Much of the region surrounding Mukilteo to the east is unincorporated Snohomish county.
Climate data for Mukilteo, Washington In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 28.2% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 6.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The City of Mukilteo incorporated in May 1947 and operates as a non-charter code town/city with a Mayor-Council form of government.
City of Mukilteo Council History 1956: Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Albert Losvar, Fred Allen, Henry Brown, Ken Walin, Ronald Kane 1957: Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Fred Allen, Ken Walin, Ronald Kane 1958: Gray Beck, Richard Thompson, Fred Allen, Ken Walin, Ronald Kane, Stanley Martell, Helen Sawyers 1959: Gray Beck, Ken Walin, Ronald Kane, Stanley Martell, Helen Sawyers 1960: Gray Beck, Ken Walin, Ronald Kane, Stanley Martell, Helen Sawyers, John Moberg 1961: Gray Beck, Ken Walin, Ronald Kane, Stanley Martell, John Moberg, Peter Almgren 1962: Gray Beck, Ronald Kane, Stanley Martell, John Moberg, Peter Almgren, Mildred Mercer 1964: Ronald Kane, Stanley Martell, John Moberg, Peter Almgren, Mildred Mercer, George Mc - Connell, Randall Bump 1965: Stanley Martell, John Moberg, Peter Almgren, George Mc - Connell, Randall Bump 1966: Stanley Martell, John Moberg, Peter Almgren, George Mc - Connell, Randall Bump 1967: Stanley Martell, John Moberg, Peter Almgren, George Mc - Connell, Randall Bump, Anne Jenks, Edward Brock 1968: Stanley Martell, Peter Almgren, George Mc - Connell, Anne Jenks, Edward Brock 1969: Stanley Martell, Peter Almgren, George Mc - Connell, Anne Jenks, Edward Brock, Jerry Lavell 1970: Stanley Martell, George Mc - Connell, Anne Jenks, Edward Brock, Jerry Lavell 1971: Stanley Martell, George Mc - Connell, Anne Jenks, Edward Brock, Jerry Lavell 1978: George Mc - Connell, Anne Jenks, Virginia Bergstrom, Larry Corbaley, Philip Cadwallader, Ronald Bivens, John Adams 1981: Virginia Bergstrom (vacated), Philip Cadwallader, John Adams, Jay Howell, Patrick Mc - Grady, Roland Stemmer, Marlene Hultman (appointed 12/7/81), Susan Betz (appointed 12/15/80), Royal Hawley (appointed 12/15/80) 1990: Marlene Hultman, Roland Stemmer, Chuck Lee (vacated), Terry Mundorf, Loretta Jackson, Brian Langlais, Matt Warnock, Bruce Richter (appointed 7/9/90) 1991: Marlene Hultman, Roland Stemmer, Terry Mundorf, Loretta Jackson, Brian Langlais, Matt Warnock, Bruce Richter 1992: Loretta Jackson, Brian Langlais, Matt Warnock (vacated), Bruce Richter, William Angdahl, Don Doran, Bernie Friedman, Marlene Hultman (appointed 2/28/92) 1993: Loretta Jackson, Brian Langlais, Bruce Richter, William Angdahl, Don Doran, Bernie Friedman, Marlene Hultman (vacated), Cathy Reese (council-elect) 1994: Bruce Richter, William Angdahl, Don Doran, Bernie Friedman, Cathy Reese, Ken Kromann, Harold Quinby 1995: Bruce Richter, William Angdahl, Don Doran, Cathy Reese, Ken Kromann, Harold Quinby, Eileen Hinds 1996: Bruce Richter, Don Doran, Cathy Reese, Ken Kromann, Harold Quinby, Eileen Hinds, Kerry Mushkin 1997: Bruce Richter, Don Doran, Cathy Reese, Ken Kromann, Harold Quinby, Eileen Hinds, Kerry Mushkin 1998: Bruce Richter, Cathy Reese, Harold Quinby, Eileen Hinds, Kerry Mushkin, Joe Marine, Charles Pancerzewski (appointed 1/6/98) 1999: Bruce Richter, Cathy Reese, Harold Quinby, Eileen Hinds, Kerry Mushkin, Joe Marine, Charles Pancerzewski, Bruce Brown (council-elect) 2000: Bruce Richter, Cathy Reese, Harold Quinby, Eileen Hinds, Joe Marine, Bruce Brown, Ken Kromann 2001: Bruce Richter, Cathy Reese, Harold Quinby, Eileen Hinds, Joe Marine (vacated), Bruce Brown, Ken Kromann, John Sullivan (appointed 1/29/01) 2002-2003: Bruce Richter, Cathy Reese, Eileen Hinds, Bruce Brown, Ken Kromann, John Sullivan, Paul Rand 2004: Bruce Richter, Cathy Reese, John Sullivan, Paul Rand, Jennifer Gregerson, Donna Lansberry (vacated), Tony Tinsley, Lori Kaiser (appointed 9/27/04) 2005: Bruce Richter, Cathy Reese, John Sullivan, Paul Rand, Jennifer Gregerson, Tony Tinsley, Lori Kaiser View of Mukilteo's coastline from Puget Sound Mukilteo is positioned contiguous to Puget Sound, a large inlet of the Pacific Ocean separating Washington State's Olympic Peninsula from the chief portion of the state of Washington.
"Mukilteo By the Bay" and "Mukilteo By the Sea" are variations of a slogan incessantly seen on license plate frames in and around Mukilteo.
At one point there were two boathouses on the coastline, Mukilteo Boat House and Mc - Connell's Boathouse, but both have been completed and replaced with a condominium apartment building and a hotel in the order given.
Mukilteo has a car ferry terminal that joins to Clinton, on Whidbey Island.
The town/city is served by SR 525, which travels between the Mukilteo ferry terminal and Lynnwood on the Mukilteo Speedway, and SR 526, which serves the Boeing Everett Factory.
Train service is provided by Sound Transit through its Sounder commuter rail route to Seattle, stopping at Mukilteo Station east of the ferry terminal. Community Transit operates small-town bus service on the Mukilteo Speedway toward a park and ride in Lynnwood, as well as commuter routes to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington. The Rane Corporation, a pro audio equipment manufacturer, is headquartered in Mukilteo. Boeing has a factory in Everett, WA where the 747, 767 and 777 are assembled that is directly contiguous to Mukilteo, WA and employs many inhabitants and visitors of Mukilteo.
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