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History of Edmonds, Washington

Edmonds is a city in Snohomish County, Washington|Snohomish County, Washington, United States. Edmonds has a view of the Puget Sound and both the Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range. As of 2007, Edmonds is the second most populous city in Snohomish County, ranking behind Everett, Washington|Everett, population 101,000.

Based on Washington locations by per capita income|per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Edmonds ranks 37th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.

Edmonds is a port in the Washington State Ferries system. Currently, the only ferry from Edmonds is a short run to Kingston, Washington; in the past, there have been much longer routes from Edmonds to Port Townsend, Washington. [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5080 Ferry service returns to Port Townsend after a 40-year absence on February 21, 1979]


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