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.
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
Andrew Carnegie Librarylisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresEdmonds 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 39,709 | |
| 2020 | 42,853 | +3,144 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1897 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Edmonds quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Edmonds quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Edmonds West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Edmonds West quadrangle1:24000
What the histories say of this town
6,700 words2 chapters about Edmonds from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future | Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914) | 931 words |
| History | History of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926) | 5,769 words |
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mc Aleer | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Meadowdale | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Lynnwood Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Richmond Beach Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2008 | Lightning | Edmonds | $25,000 | A 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 2012 | Debris Flow | Edmonds | $2,000 | Mudslides effected the tracks that commuter trains travel between Everett and Seattle. Passenger trains were cancelled for 48 hours. |
| October 2005 | Lightning | Edmonds | $2,000 | 3 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 1997 | Debris Flow | Edmonds | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodway | 1.0 miles | 26 | |
| Esperance | 1.9 miles | 25 | |
| Perrinville | 2.3 miles | 25 | |
| Firdale | 2.3 miles | 25 | |
| Seattle Heights | 2.8 miles | 25 | |
| Lynnwood | 3.4 miles | 25 | |
| Meadowdale | 3.7 miles | 25 | |
| Cedar Valley | 3.9 miles | 25 |
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 Edmonds | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1055845 | The 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.










