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If you're thinking about moving to Seattle or visiting the Emerald city, you came to the right place!

Seattle screams coffee, Bill Gates and the birth of grunge rock, but there's more than meets the eye in Emerald City. Over three million Pacific North westerners call Seattle
home, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee.

The continental United States' north westernmost point, Seattle sits on the Pacific Rim with sweeping panorama views of Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, the Olympic mountain
range and majestic Mount Rainier.

Home to the University of Washington, Seattle is the nation's most educated city, with the highest percentage of college graduates. Seattle offers its residents a high quality of life and travelers a memorable visit, with opportunities to golf, sail, ski, kayak, camp and hike, as well as urban pleasures like world-class restaurants, stylish shopping, luxurious hotels and vibrant nightlife, including, of course, an always-evolving live music scene.

City Name: Seattle
Nickname: The Emerald City
Incorporation Date: December 2nd 1869
Population: 570,430
Metro Area Population: 3,166,828
Elevation: 14 feet
Average High Temperature: Jan 45°F / July 75°F
Average Low Temperature: Jan 35°F / July 55°F
Time Zone: Pacific

City Hall
600 4th Ave
Seattle, Washington 98124
(206) 684-2489
http://www.seattle.gov/

Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau
One Convention Place
701 Pike Street, Suite 800
Seattle, Washington 98101
(206) 461-5800
http://www.seeseattle.org/

Map of Seattle Downtown and Attractions 

City History

The Denny Party arrived at Alki Point in the Seattle area on November 13, 1851. Naming the spot New York Alki (Alki is a Chinook word meaning "someday") showing their intentions of creating a great trading port. In April of 1852 the settlement was relocated to Elliott Bay and renamed Duwamps, a name that is preserved in the name of Seattle's Duwamish River.

Duwamps was incorporated as a city in December 2, 1869 as Seattle after the chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes, Noah Sealth, or Chief Seattle. The main sponsor for naming the city after Chief Seattle was David Swinson Maynard.

The central business district was destroyed by the Great Seattle

Fire of June 6, 1889. The fire was started in a cabinet makers shop by a tipped glue pot. The fire burned 29 city blocks, all of the railroad terminals, and most of the wharves. Miraculously, no one died in the fire.

The 1962 World's Fair was held in Seattle, Washington. The world famous Space Needle and Alweg monorail are part of the legacy left by the fair. The site of the fair was expanded and is now called the Seattle Center which houses an amusement park and the Pacific Science Center.

On February 28, 2001 a magnitude 6.8 earthquake, the Nisqually Earthquake rocked the region and a state of emergency was declared. The damage was only moderate, but served as a warning that the area around the Seattle Fault is under a constant threat of natural disaster.

Fun Facts about Seattle

• It is not raining all the time! Seattle incidentally, gets less rainfall per year than New York City,
• Seattleites buy more sunglasses per capita than any other city in the nation. So much for the myths of rain and clouds here!

 

• At 76 stories and 937 feet Columbia Center is Seattle's tallest building and is 12th tallest building in the country. Smith Tower, built in 1914, was once the tallest building west of the Mississippi at 42 stories. Floors are now being sold as condos
• Mount St. Helen's lost 1,131 feet of elevation in the May 1980 eruption and spewed forth about one cubic mile of dust, ash and debris.  The blast leveled over four billion feet of usable timber, enough to build 150,000 homes.
• Everett is the site of the world's largest building, Boeing's final assembly plant.
• Seattle was the first city in the US to play a Beatles song on the radio.

The highest point in Washington is Mount Rainier. It was named after Peter Rainier, a British soldier who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. I is illegal to display a hypnotized person in a store window in Everett.
The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president. Seattle built the first revolving restaurant in 1961. It is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag. North Cascade National Park, WA