Seattle, Washington

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• King County

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 12 of 229 shown

• ADVENTURESSNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989
• DUWAMISHNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989
• Panama HotelNational Historic Landmark · listed 2006
• Pioneer Building, Pergola, and Totem PoleNational Historic Landmark · listed 1977
• Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam PlantNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978
• USCGC FIRNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992
• VIRGINIA VNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
• 12th Avenue South Bridgelisted 1982
• 1411 Fourth Avenue Buildinglisted 1991
• 14th Avenue South Bridgelisted 1982
• 1600 East John Street Apartmentslisted 2013
• 1926 Model Brick Homelisted 2016

Every listing in King County

Seattle grew from 608,660 to 737,015 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.

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.

• 1894 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1895 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1897 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1908 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1909 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1909 USGS Seattle Special quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Seattle South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
• 1983 USGS Seattle South quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Seattle in 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Beacon Hill
• Beaumont
• Beaux Arts Village
• Bellevue
• Brighton
• Broadmoor

Every fire recorded in King County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Seattle: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in King County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seattle in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 2 lightning, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in King County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512650. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.