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Skagit County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 129,523. The county seat and largest city is Mount Vernon. The county was formed in 1883 from Whatcom County and is named for the Skagit Indian tribe, which has been indigenous to the area prior to European-American settlement.
Lyman is a town in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population was 438 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sedro-Woolley is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. It is part of the Mount Vernon–Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area and had a population of 12,421 at the 2020 census. The city is home to North Cascades National Park.
The Sauk-SuiattleIndian Tribe is a federally-recognized tribe of Sauk people located in western Washington state. The tribe historically lived along the banks of the Sauk, Suiattle, Cascade, Stillaguamish, and Skagit rivers, in the area known as Sauk Prairie at the foot of Whitehorse Mountain in the North Cascade Range.
The Swinomishpeople are a historically Lushootseed-speaking Native American people in western Washington state in the United States. The Tribe lives in the southeastern part of Fidalgo Island in northern Puget Sound, near the San Juan Islands, in Skagit County, Washington. Skagit County is located about 70 miles (110 km) north of Seattle.
The Skagit River is a river in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and northwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 150 mi (240 km) long. The river and its tributaries drain an area of 1.7 million acres (690,000 hectares) of the Cascade Range along the northern end of Puget Sound and flows into the sound.
The Skagit Valley lies in the northwestern corner of the state of Washington, United States. Its defining feature is the Skagit River, which snakes through local communities which include the seat of Skagit County, Mount Vernon, as well as Sedro-Woolley, Concrete, Lyman-Hamilton, and Burlington.
Hart Island is a minor island in Washington. It is located near the city of Sedro-Woolley on the Skagit River, and is carved out by the Hart Slough. DeBays Island is adjacent to Hart Island.
Samish Island is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington, United States. It lies on an island 48°34′25″N122°31′48″W with the same name, which is located off the northwest coast of the Washington mainland. It is connected to the mainland by land reclaimed through a system of dikes created in the early 20th century.
Padilla Bay is a bay located in the U.S. state of Washington, between the San Juan Islands and the mainland. Fidalgo Island and Guemes Island lie to the west of Padilla Bay. Guemes Channel, between the islands, connects Padilla Bay to Rosario Strait. Samish Island lies to the north of Padilla Bay, beyond which is Samish Bay and Bellingham Bay.
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe located in the state of Washington. Before European colonization, the tribe occupied lands along the Skagit River, from as far downstream as present-day Mount Vernon, Washington, and villages going north as far as Newhalem along the Skagit River, as well as lands on the Baker, and the Sauk rivers.
Snee Oosh is a populated place on Fidalgo Island in the U.S. state of Washington, on the Swinomish Indian Reservation. Population was reported as 302 in 1999.
Sedro-Woolley High School is a public high school in the city of Sedro-Woolley, Washington. The school enrolls about 1394 in grades 9-12. Its colors are blue and white and the school mascot is the bear cub. It is the primary high school for the Sedro-Woolley School District, with State Street High School being the alternative school.
Utsalady is an unincorporated community on the north shore of Camano Island, Island County, Washington, US. It is located within the Camano CDP. It has an elementary school, part of the Stanwood school system. The 1923 building of the Utsalady Ladies Aid is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington State Heritage Register.
The Fairhaven and Southern Railroad and its successor the Seattle and Montana Railroad were railroads in northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They ran roughly south from Blaine, Washington on the U.S.-Canada border. The Fairhaven and Southern operated 1888-1898 and ran to Sedro. It operated from December 1891 as part of the Seattle and Montana Railway, and was merged with that into its successor, the Seattle and Montana Railroad, both of which extended service south to Seattle. The Seattle and Montana operated until 1907 when it merged into the Great Northern Railway Company.
Fidalgo is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Minkler is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Prairie is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Thornwood is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Urban is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington.
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sterling, Washington
- 1 2 Bates, Dawn (2003). Lushootseed dictionary. University of Washington Press. pp. 34–253. ISBN 0-295-97323-4. OCLC 843308724.
- ↑ Hollenbeck, Jan L. (August 1987). A cultural resource overview: prehistory, ethnography and history: Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. U.S. Forest Service. p. 128.
- ↑ Meany, Edmond S. (1923). Origin of Washington geographic names. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 289.
- ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
- ↑ Sedro-Woolley, Washington. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. 2003. ISBN 9781439630365.
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