About Snohomish, Washington

Snohomish is a city of 10,126 people in Snohomish County, where the Pilchuck River flows into the Snohomish River. The Snohomish people, a Coast Salish tribe, had a village called sbadaʔɬ on this ground. In 1859 American settlers came up from Steilacoom to claim homesteads near a ferry landing planned for a new military road, and their settlement went by Cadyville, after pioneer Edson Cady, until it took the name Snohomish in 1871.

The military road was never finished, but the settlement grew into a trading center anyway. When Snohomish County split off from Island County in 1861, voters picked the village as county seat. It kept that title until 1897, when a hard-fought countywide vote sent the county government to Everett, a younger and bigger city nearby.

“At 9:30 in the morning on September 19, 1888, after weeks of rapid bridge building, Snohomish was ushered into the modern era: a steam-powered engine pulling seven cars loaded with iron and railroad ties became the first train in town.”
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  • Two elections in 1890Snohomish first incorporated in 1888, but the state Supreme Court ruled that incorporation invalid. In 1890 W. A. Oliver counted 2,012 residents, enough for a city of the third class. On June 26 voters approved incorporation 380 to 21 and elected H. Blackman first mayor over E. C. Ferguson, 218 to 164. Ferguson won the next election that same year and pushed for a city-owned water system, which voters backed 234 to 7.
  • A flight on May 7, 1911Fred J. Wiseman made the first powered flight in Snohomish County's history in a plane he had built himself, near Snohomish, north of today's Harvey Airfield. He rose about 18 meters and stayed up for less than a minute before coming down with a rough landing.
  • First Street burnsResidents threw a three-day party when First Street was paved with brick in 1903. On May 30, 1911, fire swept through the block between Avenues B and C, hitting 35 businesses and causing $170,000 in damage. Much of downtown was rebuilt in brick afterward.
  • Downtown saved in 1973By the 1960s downtown was in decline, and a 1965 plan called for tearing down the south side of First Street. Residents fought it, and the money never came through. In 1973 the city created a 26-block historic district with design rules to protect its old buildings, and the 1990s brought new sidewalks that helped draw visitors to it.

Find your street

Names on the Snohomish map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks2

  • Snohomish City Hall
  • Pilchuck

Streets and roads45

  • Bickford Avenue
  • 30th Street
  • 16th Street
  • Bonneville Avenue
  • Tenth Street
  • 22nd Street
  • Hill Road
  • Pine Avenue
  • Maple Avenue
  • Ludwig Road
  • Fourth Street
  • Park Avenue
  • Fifth Street
  • Third Street
  • Lake Avenue
  • 13th Street
  • Machias Road
  • Seventh Street
  • 20th Street
  • Sanatorium Road
  • Ninth Street
  • 19th Street
  • Weaver Road
  • Mill Avenue
  • 19th Place
  • 15th Street
  • First Street
  • Cedar Avenue
  • Sixth Street
  • Cady Drive
Show all 45 streets
  • Ford Avenue
  • 36th Street
  • 23rd Street
  • King Road
  • Second Street
  • Lake Street
  • Cypress Avenue
  • Fobes Avenue
  • Lake Mount Drive
  • Three Lakes Road
  • 66th Street
  • 21st Place
  • Ivy Street
  • Glen Avenue
  • 89th Avenue Southeast

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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