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Edmonds, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Edmonds census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98020. It stands on Shelleberger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edmonds West quadrangle. 42,853 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Edmonds within Snohomish County

On record in Edmonds

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Edmonds grew from 39,709 to 42,853 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201039,709
202042,853+3,144 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

What the histories say of this town

6,700 words

2 chapters about Edmonds from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, FutureSnohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914)931 words
HistoryHistory of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926)5,769 words

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Edmonds: 7 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mc AleerDiatomiteOccurrence
MeadowdaleClayPast Producer
Lynnwood Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Richmond Beach PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edmonds in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 2 debris flow, 2 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2008LightningEdmonds$25,000A lightning strike started a fire that scorched a few nearby trees, and damaged a garage and a storage shed near a home in Edmonds.
November 2012Debris FlowEdmonds$2,000Mudslides effected the tracks that commuter trains travel between Everett and Seattle. Passenger trains were cancelled for 48 hours.
October 2005LightningEdmonds$2,0003 lightning strikes knocked out power to nearly 6000 homes in the Edmonds area. One strike ruptured a natural gas line which started a small fire.
January 1997Debris FlowEdmonds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Snohomish County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodway1.0 miles26
Esperance1.9 miles25
Perrinville2.3 miles25
Firdale2.3 miles25
Seattle Heights2.8 miles25
Lynnwood3.4 miles25
Meadowdale3.7 miles25
Cedar Valley3.9 miles25

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EdmondsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1055845The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512180. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.