Snohomish County
| Snohomish County, Washington | |||
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Snohomish County Government Campus in Everett
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 Location in the U.S. state of Washington |
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 Washington's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | January 14, 1861 | ||
| Named for | the Snohomish people | ||
| Seat | Everett | ||
| Largest city | Everett | ||
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| • Total | 2,196 sq mi (5,688 km2) | ||
| • Land | 2,087 sq mi (5,405 km2) | ||
| • Water | 109 sq mi (282 km2), 5.0% | ||
| Population (est.) | |||
| • (2015) | 772,501 | ||
| • Density | 364/sq mi (141/km²) | ||
| Congressional districts | 1st, 2nd, 7th | ||
| Time zone | Pacific: UTC-8/-7 | ||
| Website | snohomishcountywa |
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Snohomish County (/snoʊˈhoʊmᵻʃ/) is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. With an estimated population of 772,501 as of 2015, it is the third-most populous county in Washington. The county seat and largest city is Everett. The county was created out of Island County on January 14, 1861 and is named for the Snohomish tribe.
Snohomish County is included in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
"Snohomish" comes from the name of the largest Native American tribe in the area when settlers arrived in the 19th century. The name is spelled as "Sdoh-doh-hohbsh" in the Lushootseed language and has a disputed meaning with unclear origins, with Dr. Charles M. Buchanan once saying that he had "never met an Indian who could give a meaning to the word Snohomish" in his 21 years as an Indian agent at the Tulalip tribe. Chief William Shelton, the last hereditary tribal chief of the Snohomish tribe, claimed that it meant "lowland people", a name associated with the tribe's location on the waters of the Puget Sound; other scholars have claimed "a style of union among them", "the braves", or "Sleeping Waters".
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