Sequim, Washington Sequim, Washington Nickname(s): Sunny Sequim Sequim, Washington Sequim, Washington Website City of Sequim Sequim Listeni/ skw m/ is a town/city in Clallam County, Washington, United States.
Sequim and the region around Sequim has a populace of about 28,000.
Sequim is positioned along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains.
The town/city has been increasing in populace dramatically in recent years due to the influx of retirees from the Puget Sound region and California.
Sequim School District populace served is a little over 29,000. Sequim lies inside the precipitation shadow of the Olympic Mountains and receives on average less than 16 inches (410 mm) of precipitation per year about the same as Los Angeles, California and has given itself the nickname of Sunny Sequim.
Yet the town/city is fairly close to some of the wettest temperate rainforests of the adjoining United States.
This climate anomaly is sometimes called the blue hole of Sequim. Fogs and cool breezes from the Juan de Fuca Strait make Sequim's surrounding more humid than would be expected from the low average annual precipitation.
Most soils under Sequim have been placed in a series which is titled after the city. This "Sequim series" is one of the several Mollisols in Washington and its high base saturation, a characteristic of the Mollisol order, is attributed to the minimal leaching of bases caused by low annual rainfall. The town/city and the encircling area are especially known for the commercial cultivation of lavender, supported by the unique climate: it makes Sequim the "Lavender Capital of North America", rivaled only in France.
Sequim is pronounced as one syllable, with the e elided: "skwim".
The small-town news publications consist of the improve news paper Sequim Gazette, and the Peninsula Daily News. Also, the Sequim Radio station, KSQM 91.5! Sequim's sister town/city is Shiso, Hyogo, Japan.
Sequim and Shiso have an exchange pupil program set up through Sequim High School and Sequim Middle School. A lavender farm in Sequim, Washington Fossils identified in the late 1970s at a dig known as the Manis Mastodon Site, near Sequim, by Carl Gustafson, an archaeologist at Washington State University encompassed a mastodon bone with an embedded bone point, evidencing the existence of hunters in the region about 14,000 years ago.
According to other tales the town Sequim in S'Klallam means "a place for going to shoot" which represents the abundance of game and wildlife of the area. Both Manuel Quimper and George Vancouver explored the region's coast in the 1790s.
Sequim was officially incorporated on October 31, 1913.
Near the end of World War I, Sequim became a stop for a stockyards which passed through from Port Angeles to Port Townsend, assembled primarily to carry wood products from the forests of the Olympic Peninsula.
Sequim has held its Irrigation Festival every May since 1895.
Sequim is home to a herd of Roosevelt elk, one attraction to the area.
Over the past two decades, Sequim has turn into famous for burgeoning lavender and holds the Sequim Lavender Weekend (always the third weekend in July). The Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge is positioned just north of the city, near the mouth of the Dungeness River.
To the east along Highway 101 is Sequim Bay, a 4-mile (6.5 km) long inlet from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Along the stretch is the Sequim Bay State Park.
Sequim is positioned at 48 4 41 N 123 6 5 W (48.078002, -123.101427). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.37 square miles (16.50 km2), of which, 6.31 square miles (16.34 km2) is territory and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2) is water. Sequim experiences a mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csb), sometimes classified as an oceanic climate owing to the mostly cool temperatures.
The highest temperature recorded in Sequim was 99 F (37.2 C) on 16 July 1941, and the lowest 3 F ( 19.4 C) on 19 January 1935. Climate data for Sequim Average rain days 15 11 11 9 8 7 4 5 7 10 14 16 118 Postal Service brings to 28,000+ citizens inside Sequim's zip code, 98382.
Most of these postal patrons live outside the Sequim town/city limits in Clallam County.] There were 3,340 homeholds of which 17.1% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 36.5% were married couples residing together, 9.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 51.3% were non-families.
45.5% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 29.2% had someone residing alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The median age in the town/city was 57.9 years.
15.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 6.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 15.9% were from 25 to 44; 22.1% were from 45 to 64; and 40.4% were 65 years of age or older.
More specified knowledge from the 2000 census pointed out that the ethnic makeup of the town/city was 93.91% White, 0.30% African American, 1.15% Native American, 1.75% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.92% from other competitions, and 1.87% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,163 homeholds out of which 15.5% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 40.1% were married couples residing together, 9.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 48.6% were non-families.
44.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 30.5% had someone residing alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 15.3% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 15.2% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 44.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 9.8% of families and 13.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 19.9% of those under age 18 and 10.7% of those age 65 or over.
The Sequim School District is home of the following schools: Sequim High School Sequim Middle School Sequim Community School United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Sequim Online Gazette".
"Sequim High School / Homepage".
"Sequim Middle School / Overview".
Sequim means something else entirely".
Sequim Gazette.
Timothy Egan (January 2, 2001), "Sequim journal: elk that call ahead to cross the highway", The New York Times "Sequim Tourism, WA - Official Website - Lavender Weekend".
"SEQUIM, WASHINGTON - Climate Summary".
"Sequim 2 E, Washington".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sequim, Washington.
Sequim School District Municipalities and communities of Clallam County, Washington, United States
Categories:
Cities in Clallam County, Washington - Cities in Washington (state)Populated coastal places in Washington (state)
|