118-724: MV Alert was a vessel launched in 1942 and originally constructed in Everett, Washington as a harbour defence vessel. Alert arrived in New Zealand as a result of the American lend-lease scheme and was based in Wellington . After World War II she was laid up in Auckland . In 1946 Alexander J. Black purchased the vessel, overhauled her and then based her at Dunedin , where she was used in multiple research expeditions including
236-628: A modern city hall , and additions to the city's two hospitals. The six-story Monte Cristo Hotel opened in 1925 with 140 guest rooms, elaborate furnishings, and a banquet hall that would host civic functions for several decades. The county's first radio station, KFBL (now KRKO ), began broadcasting on August 25, 1922, and was among the earliest in the state. In 1924, a third mill at the Weyerhaeuser complex, which employed 1,500 people and contributed to $ 28.125 million (equivalent to $ 393 million in 2023 dollars) in annual timber output by
354-638: A park and ride , with 1,067 short-term parking spaces located in lots around the station after it was expanded by Sound Transit in 2009. Everett Station is served by six daily Amtrak trains: four Cascades runs between Seattle and Vancouver , British Columbia , and two Empire Builder runs between Seattle and Chicago . The station is also served by the N ;Line of Sound Transit 's Sounder commuter rail service, running four trains in peak direction towards King Street Station in Seattle during
472-491: A plat for "Everett", which they named in honor of Everett Colby , the son of investor Charles L. Colby . The city was incorporated in 1893, shortly after the arrival of the Great Northern Railway , and prospered as a major lumber center with several large sawmills . Everett became the county seat in 1897 after a dispute with Snohomish contested over several elections and a Supreme Court case. The city
590-583: A "Vision 2020" award for its combination of a transportation hub and community gathering place into a single project. Everett Station also won the 2006 Citation Award from the Washington branch of the American Institute of Architects , whose jury commended the City of Everett on the station housing "an innovative mix of transit, educational functions, and community spaces; delights travelers; and
708-549: A 34,000-pound (15,000 kg; 15 t) precast steel arch, facing a small plaza at the intersection of Smith Avenue and 32nd Street. The lobby is decorated with an inlaid terrazzo floor with a design representing local waterways, accompanied by a three-story atrium consisting of a large glass wall and a large clock. The station building, designed by architectural firm Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership , houses ticket counters and waiting areas for Amtrak and Greyhound in addition to passenger amenities, such as restrooms, payphones,
826-605: A beautification and restoration program had begun in the 1980s. The downtown program included a road diet for Colby Avenue, planter boxes on widened sidewalks, and new parks. Several new office buildings were completed in Downtown Everett, including the 11-story Everett Mutual Tower , and other historic buildings were renovated or restored. The city also annexed 465 acres (188 ha) near Paine Field in March 2000, bringing Everett's population to over 91,000. Everett
944-565: A campaign to become county seat by replacing Snohomish , which had waned in importance following the completion of several railroads serving other cities in the county. An election to determine which city would be named county seat was scheduled for November 6, 1894, beginning a heated debate by citizens and newspapers. The initial count by the commissioners was announced on December 19 in Everett's favor, amid accusations of fraud and bought votes from both sides. Following an appeal from Snohomish,
1062-408: A customer service center, and ORCA card vending machines, open daily from 6am to 10pm. The station has weatherproof bicycle lockers in addition to 6 short-term bicycle racks located at the front of the station. In addition to being a multimodal hub for train and bus service, Everett Station functions as a home to social services and educational programs. University Center of North Puget Sound
1180-520: A future Link light rail station. In the early 2020s, several apartment buildings with a combined 650 units were completed in downtown and the waterfront district. Everett generally has an oceanic climate similar to most of the Puget Sound lowlands , with year-round moderate temperatures influenced by marine air masses. The variation of normal weather between seasons is less extreme than inland areas, with dry summers and mild, rainy winters due to
1298-479: A grand opening on October 9, 1974, with 14 stores. The development of the mall was slowed by a local economic crash that began with the cancellation of Boeing's supersonic jetliner program in 1971 and financial issues for airlines that affected sales of the Boeing 747. The Everett factory reduced its number of employees from 25,000 to 4,700, causing a spike in local unemployment rates and an exodus of former employees;
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#17327769069771416-472: A high demand for West Coast wood products. Everett itself suffered from a major fire on August 2, 1909, that destroyed 12 commercial buildings and the county courthouse. The city's growth was not hindered by the fire and a new county courthouse opened in 1910 alongside the Everett High School campus. Everett voters approved a new city charter in 1912 that reorganized the city government into
1534-604: A kitchen, and an outdoor playground in a former parking lot. A ten-year lease for the 3,800-square-foot (350 m ) space was approved by the Everett City Council in January 2022 for $ 1 per month. A lease for 640 square feet (59 m ) on the ground floor for a model railroad club was approved in 2023; the Swamp Creek and Western Railroad Association plans to move their exhibit from Edmonds station to
1652-503: A large hotel and several high-rise office building. A city landfill southeast of Downtown Everett was turned into a recycling plant for millions of rubber tires , nicknamed "Mount Firestone", which caught fire in September 1984 and burned for seven months as the incident gained national media attention. Boeing recovered from its sales slump and increased employment at its Everett plant to 18,000 people in 1980 as it prepared to unveil
1770-550: A major employment center for Snohomish County, but has also become a bedroom community for Seattle in recent decades. It is connected to Seattle by Interstate 5 and various public transit services at Everett Station , including the Sounder commuter train , Amtrak , and commuter buses. Everett stages several annual festivals and is also home to minor league sports teams, including the Everett Silvertips at Angel of
1888-422: A major expansion of its North Everett campus in 2011 by opening a 12-story medical tower. The first U.S. case of coronavirus disease 2019 was identified in a Snohomish County resident at Providence Regional Medical Center on January 20, 2020. As the coronavirus pandemic worsened in the state, mayor Cassie Franklin declared the first shelter-in-place order for Washington state on March 21, 2020. In response to
2006-575: A name that would not identify a specific location, naming their planned city after Everett Colby , the fifteen-year-old son of investor Charles L. Colby, who had displayed a "prodigious appetite" at a group dinner. The Everett Land Company was incorporated in Pierce County on November 19, 1890, and acquired 434.15 acres (175.69 ha) of property from the Rucker Brothers a week later. Several businesses had already been established on
2124-627: A new downtown public library, develop parks, expand schools, and improve streets. The works program also built a new county airport, later named Paine Field , that opened southwest of Everett in 1936 to serve commercial uses. The airport was appropriated for military use during World War II , but was later turned over to county ownership. The war also brought a new shipyard operated by the Everett-Pacific Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company , which employed 6,000 workers and closed in 1949. Downtown Everett continued to grow as
2242-480: A projected revenue shortfall of $ 14 million caused by the shelter-in-place order, which later spread statewide, the city government laid off 160 employees in May 2020 and plans to cut services. The city's original 2020 budget had already been constrained due to a projected deficit caused by a spending gap identified in 2017. The first portions of the redeveloped Everett waterfront, a 142-room hotel, opened in 2019 and
2360-768: A site they speculated would be the first ocean port for Great Northern Railway , to be constructed by James J. Hill , and turn it into a " Pittsburgh of the West". On August 22, 1890, the plat for a 50-acre (20 ha) townsite on the peninsula was filed by the Rucker Brothers , who had moved north from Tacoma and had more modest plans for the area. By September, Colby had secured $ 800,000 in funding (equivalent to $ 24.8 million in 2023 dollars) from oil magnate John D. Rockefeller and his railroad associate Colgate Hoyt to begin acquiring land while avoiding property speculators. The Hewitt–Colby syndicate decided to use
2478-474: A six-lane freeway roughly following the former interurban railway. The freeway was extended around the east side of Downtown Everett in January 1968 and Interstate 5 was completed within Washington with the opening of the section connecting the city to Marysville in May 1969. The Boeing Company opened its first Everett factory in 1943 as part of its wartime production for the B-17 program. The company moved to
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#17327769069772596-403: A straightaway track segment east of downtown as the preferred location of a multimodal train/bus station, to replace the existing Amtrak station at Bond Street, in 1993. The Everett City Council chose a two-block industrial site bordered by Pacific Avenue to the north in 1995, estimating a cost of $ 30 million and an opening in 1998. Everett Mayor Ed Hansen proposed adding two additional stories to
2714-679: A three-commissioner council with a ceremonial mayor. During the first decade of the 20th century, workers at mills and other factories began organizing labor unions under the Everett Central Trades Council, which had 27 member trades and six unions by 1901. The council had 25 unions by 1907 and became affiliated with the American Federation of Labor , using its influence to stage strikes and work stoppages that resulted in wage increases and safer conditions at mills, where 35 workers had died in 1909. Everett
2832-674: A three-story courthouse was opened on February 1, 1898. After outside investors withdrew their shares in the Everett Land Company, its holdings were transferred in 1899 to the Everett Improvement Company , controlled by James J. Hill and his trusted associate John T. McChesney. Friedrich Weyerhäuser acquired Hill's timberland holdings in the Pacific Northwest and chose Everett for the site of his major lumber mill, which opened in 1902. By
2950-517: A weekday inter-county express route (Route 90X) from the station to Skagit Station in Mount Vernon and Chuckanut Park & Ride in Burlington ; Island Transit also runs a peak-only weekday express route (Route 412C) from Everett Station to Stanwood and Camano Island . Paratransit to the front door of the station building is provided by Community Transit and Everett Station through
3068-511: A wing assembly center adjacent to the Everett plant, which opened in 2016. Commercial passenger service at Paine Field resumed at a new terminal on March 4, 2019, after earlier plans from the 1980s onward were blocked by nearby residents. The city government began planning for a major redevelopment of a former landfill on the Snohomish River waterfront in the late 1990s, but the project was stalled as private developers declined to move
3186-511: A workforce population of 88,146 people with 59,599 who are employed, according to a 2018 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau. The city also had an estimated 7,335 registered businesses in 2012 providing 94,000 jobs. Everett's economy is centered around aerospace manufacturing, maritime activities, the technology sector, and the service industry . The largest employer in the city is airplane manufacturer Boeing , with 31 percent of all jobs. The company's main manufacturing plant near Paine Field
3304-748: Is August, with average high temperatures of 72.7 °F (22.6 °C ), while January is the coolest, at an average high of 44.9 °F (7.2 °C). The highest recorded temperature at Paine Field, 100 °F (38 °C), first occurred on July 29, 2009; it was tied on August 16, 2020, and tied again on June 28, 2021, during a regional heat wave . The lowest, 0 °F (−18 °C), occurred on November 11, 1993. The city receives 35.71 inches (907 mm) of annual rainfall, which mostly falls from October to March and peaks in December. Everett rarely receives significant snowfall and its highest total, 26.6 inches (68 cm), occurred in 1965. Everett has
3422-430: Is also prone to mudslides that interrupt passenger and freight service on the railroad that runs along the coastline of the bay. Other areas of the city drain into the watersheds of the Snohomish River and Lake Washington . The city of Everett maintains an Office of Neighborhoods which facilitates communication between the city and recognized neighborhood associations. The neighborhood associations are independent from
3540-507: Is expected to be extended from Lynnwood Transit Center to Everett in 2037 or 2041 depending on the availability of funding. The project was approved in the Sound Transit 3 package passed by voters in 2016. The terminus serving downtown Everett is planned to either be located adjacent to Everett Station, as presumed in earlier studies, or closer to Broadway between Pacific Avenue and Wall Street to serve other destinations. In 2012,
3658-471: Is home to an aerospace supplier and distribution centers for Amazon and FedEx . Everett Station Everett Station is a train station serving the city of Everett, Washington , United States. The station has been served by Cascades and Empire Builder since opening in 2002, replacing an earlier station near the Port of Everett. The four-story building also houses social service programs and
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3776-694: Is home to city and county government offices, high-rise office buildings, hotels, and apartment buildings . The Angel of the Winds Arena is on the west side of Broadway, anchoring a small historic district on Hewitt Avenue. Several downtown streets are named for the founders of the Everett Land Company and their associates, including John D. Rockefeller, the Rucker Brothers, Charles L. Colby, and shipbuilder Alexander McDougall . The city government approved plans in 2018 to allow for high-rise buildings as tall as 25 stories and with reduced parking requirements to encourage denser development in anticipation of
3894-525: Is one of the main cities in the metropolitan area and the Puget Sound region . Everett is the seventh-most populous city in the state by population, with 110,629 residents as of the 2020 census . The city is primarily situated on a peninsula at the mouth of the Snohomish River along Port Gardner Bay , an inlet of Possession Sound (itself part of Puget Sound ), and extends to the south and west. The Port Gardner Peninsula has been inhabited by
4012-580: Is the center of a 10-acre (4 ha) complex that includes parking lots and a large bus station used primarily by Community Transit , Everett Transit , and Sound Transit Express . The station has served as the northern terminus of the Sounder N ;Line since 2003 and the Swift Blue Line since 2009. It consists of two side platforms , one serving Amtrak and the other serving Sounder commuter trains . Everett Station also functions as
4130-511: Is the world's largest building by volume . The local economy of Everett and Snohomish County is heavily affected by Boeing's performance, with layoffs and strikes causing downturns in other industries. The city's economy in the 19th and early 20th centuries was tied to the lumber trade and maritime industries, including fishing and boat manufacturing. Everett's last remaining wood pulp mill , owned by Kimberly-Clark , shut down in April 2012 and
4248-516: Is welcoming to the public for classes, public meetings, and banquets." Prior to the opening of Everett Station in 2002, Amtrak served the city of Everett at a small station located at 2900 Bond Street, overlooking the Port of Everett west of downtown. It saw free commuter rail service from January to March 1995 as part of the "Try Rail" demonstration, consisting of two daily roundtrips from Seattle and special service to Seattle SuperSonics games at
4366-402: The 1954 Chatham Islands expedition . This article about a specific civilian ship or boat is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Everett, Washington Everett ( / ˈ ɛ v ə r ɪ t / ; Lushootseed : dᶻəɬigʷəd ) is the county seat and most populous city of Snohomish County, Washington , United States. It is 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle and
4484-545: The Dial a Ride program. Daily intercity bus service to Everett Station is provided by Greyhound Lines and Northwestern Trailways . In March 2019, Greyhound's BoltBus express service began serving Everett Station with 48 departures to Vancouver, Bellingham , Tacoma, and Portland, Oregon . The service was discontinued by Greyhound in 2021. The Everett Station complex is located on 10 acres (4.0 ha ; 0.016 sq mi ) situated between Downtown Everett to
4602-658: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical socialist union who provided speakers at Everett events. The city government passed a new ordinance to restrict street speaking as a result of tensions between the IWW and county sheriff Donald McRae , who armed a local militia and beat 41 union members who were attempting to enter the city by boat on October 30, 1916. The beatings drew anger from union members and other Everett citizens, prompting 300 IWW members to travel on
4720-711: The Inside Passage aboard the steamship Queen of the Pacific in July 1890, lumberman Henry Hewitt Jr. and railroad executive Charles L. Colby drew up plans for an industrial city on Port Gardner Bay. Hewitt and Colby had previously met in Wisconsin , where they operated lumber and maritime businesses, respectively, and in Tacoma, Washington , from which the voyage began. The pair sought to build an industrial center at
4838-549: The Lake Stickney/Mariner neighborhoods, which are part of the city's designated urban growth area that extends south towards Lynnwood . The southern boundary wraps around Silver Lake and follows State Route 527 to State Route 96 at Murphy's Corner, where it borders Mill Creek . Everett's boundaries follow various housing subdivisions in the Eastmont area before reaching the Snohomish River, which forms
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4956-753: The Lushootseed language as hibulb (pronounced HEE -bulb ). The village of Hibulb, located below the bluff at the mouth of the Snohomish River, was one of the largest Snohomish settlements and the tribe's most important. It held considerable influence over other settlements and had the largest potlatch house in the Snohomish's territory; it was also heavily fortified by a large cedar palisade to deter attackers. The village also had four large cedar longhouses , each around 100 feet (30 m) long, and smaller structures. The Snohomish consider hibulb to be their place of origin and references it in
5074-434: The Puget Sound estuary), and to the north and east by the Snohomish River delta. The city also encompasses suburban and industrial areas to the south and southwest of the peninsula, which were annexed during the mid-to-late 20th century. Everett has 11 miles (18 km) of freshwater shoreline and 11 miles (18 km) of saltwater shoreline, including public access points at parks and boat ramps on Port Gardner Bay and
5192-479: The Scott Paper Company as the last remaining paper mill in Everett until its closure in 2012. The city instead deepened its connections to the aerospace and high-tech industry, opening facilities in the 1980s for Hewlett-Packard , Fluke , and other electronics firms. Downtown Everett also declined as an activity center as retailers and car dealerships moved to suburban areas, despite the opening of
5310-456: The Snohomish people for thousands of years, whose main settlement, hibulb , was located at Preston Point near the mouth of the river. Modern settlement in the area began with loggers and homesteaders arriving in the 1860s, but plans to build a city were not conceived until 1890. A consortium of East Coast investors seeking to build a major industrial city acquired land in the area and filed
5428-467: The State Route 99 corridor. Everett Station was proposed as the site of a University of Washington branch campus, with state consultants choosing 32 acres (0.13 km ) around the station to house 5,000 students from Snohomish, Island County and Skagit County . The project, dubbed UW North Sound , was put on hold in December 2008 and has since been canceled. Link light rail service
5546-628: The Tacoma Dome . The Bond Street Station, originally built by the Great Northern Railway in 1910, was originally planned to be kept as a secondary commuter rail station without parking or major bus connections until it was removed from Sound Transit 's plans in 2001. The station was closed in November 2002 and has since become the offices of the BNSF Railway Northwest Division. The City of Everett selected
5664-550: The USS ; Abraham Lincoln . The city underwent an urban revival in the 1990s, fueled by the upcoming centennial celebrations and a third expansion of the Boeing plant for the Boeing 777 program. The plant expansion was completed in 1993, enlarging the world's largest building by volume to 472,000,000 cubic feet (13,400,000 m ) covering 96 acres (39 ha). Everett's inner neighborhoods grew with new residential and commercial development, including Downtown Everett, where
5782-638: The United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes in 1841, ahead of a larger American presence in the area. The Snohomish were one of the signatory tribes of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, which ceded their lands to the Washington territorial government and established the nearby Tulalip Indian Reservation , to which many of the Snohomish would be removed. The first permanent American settler to arrive on
5900-561: The Washington State Department of Transportation to begin a three-year landslide mitigation project in 2013 that will stabilize slopes above the railroad between Seattle and Everett. The Everett Station complex also includes a bus station with 26 bus bays that serve as a major transfer station for routes from Snohomish County . Everett Transit operates the majority of its bus routes out of their 12 bus bays on Smith Avenue. Community Transit has six routes at
6018-656: The Washington Supreme Court declared the result to be invalid and blocked the move, but a recount by the commissioners in October 1895 remained in Everett's favor. A long legal battle was fought between the two cities and was decided in October 1895 by the Supreme Court, who ruled that Everett would become county seat per the legal and binding recount. In January 1897, the county government's records were moved by wagons from Snohomish to Everett, where
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#17327769069776136-475: The creation myth for the deity dukʷibəɬ . The tribe's population was estimated to be over 6,000 prior to several smallpox and measles epidemics in the early 19th century that severely affected the Puget Sound region. A massive landslide at Camano Head ( Lushootseed : x̌ʷuyšəd ) in the 1820s destroyed several villages and caused a tidal wave that washed away portions of Hibulb. In Lushootseed,
6254-437: The "City of Everett", began at the unfinished factory in January 1967. It was unveiled in September 1968 and made its maiden flight on February 9, 1969. The Everett factory was expanded several times to accommodate later Boeing programs, including the 767 , 777 , and 787 Dreamliner . The impending construction of the Boeing plant triggered a new residential and commercial development in Everett and surrounding communities in
6372-605: The 14th Street Dock and Jetty Island from the Everett Improvement Company. The city also acquired the private water system in 1915 and replaced it with a new supply from the Sultan River basin that was fully activated four years later. Everett's central commercial district grew from a handful of businesses into a busy downtown during the 1920s, including the construction of several multi-story office and retail buildings, two junior high schools ,
6490-572: The 16-acre (6.5 ha) Baker Heights public housing complex into a mixed-income neighborhood with 1,500 residential units, offices, and retail with buildings as tall as 15 stories. Everett is one of the core cities comprising the Seattle metropolitan area and is 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle . It is primarily situated on the Port Gardner Peninsula, bordered to the west by Port Gardner Bay (part of Possession Sound in
6608-677: The 3rd and 4th floors, respectively. The 4th floor is also home to the Weyerhaeuser Room, a 2,800-square-foot (0.00026 km ) public meeting space, named for the philanthropic arm of the Weyerhaeuser Company in 2003 after their donation of murals displayed throughout Everett Station. The first floor is occupied by the Bezos Academy , a private tuition-free preschool funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos . It opened on March 2, 2023, with three classrooms,
6726-506: The Boeing 767, the second family of jetliners to be produced in Everett. A neighboring industrial park along Seaway Boulevard was developed in the 1980s as demand for commercial space in the city grew. The Port of Everett began developing a new shopping and retail complex on Port Gardner Bay as it looked to diversify away from industrial uses, but the project ran into financial issues as Everett-area employers failed or laid off workers amid an aerospace slump in 1981–82. The U.S. Navy selected
6844-426: The City of Everett began to rezone the station's surrounding area to allow multifamily housing, encouraging transit-oriented development by raising height limits to 80 feet (24 m). Another proposal would have a 500-stall parking garage built to replace the southernmost lot at a cost of $ 15–18 million, allowing Everett Transit to transform the existing western lot into mixed-use development . Everett Station
6962-506: The Everett School District closed three of its elementary schools as enrollment dropped by 3,000 students. During the 1970s, several of Everett's surviving lumber and pulp mills closed as they were too costly to renovate or replace, marking the end of the "Mill Town". Lowell's pulp mill closed in 1972 and was followed by Weyerhaeuser's Mill B in 1979 and Mill A in 1981. The final Weyerhaeuser mill closed in 1992, leaving
7080-517: The Everett–Pacific Shipyard in 1956 and grew to be the city's largest single employer by 1965, with 1,728 employees. Boeing approved early development of its Boeing 747 passenger jetliner in March 1966 and purchased 780 acres (320 ha) near Paine Field in June to build its assembly plant for the plane, which would become the world's first "jumbo jet". Work on the first 747 plane, named
7198-592: The Hewitt Avenue commercial district to mills, smelters , and areas as far as Lowell. The Everett Land Company ran into financial trouble within months of the city's incorporation as the impact of the Panic of 1893 was felt in the region. The company's investment in the Monte Cristo area yielded ore of poorer quality than expected and it was unable to meet the promises in the "Remarkable Document", which
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#17327769069777316-514: The Hibulb village and its history; the park is atop the bluff that overlooks the village site. The first Europeans in the area were explorers from the 1792 Vancouver Expedition , who landed on a beach on the modern Everett waterfront and claimed the land for England on June 4, the birthday of King George III . Puget Sound was further explored and charted by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1824 and
7434-432: The IWW for escalating the dispute. The labor tensions subsided with the entry of the U.S. into World War I , despite an attempted comeback by the IWW in disrupting logging for the war effort. As a result of the massacre, the state government passed laws to prohibit citizens from advocating for anarchy or violent overthrow, which were not repealed until 1999. The massacre was largely unacknowledged by local residents until
7552-424: The Port of Everett's 65 acres (26 ha) on the bayside waterfront, known as Port Gardner Wharf, was shelved in 2007 by the developer's financial issues. A new development, named Waterfront Place, began construction in 2018 with a hotel, apartments, restaurants, and shops adjacent to the city's public marina . Providence Regional Medical Center , formed from a merger of Everett's two hospitals in 1994, completed
7670-678: The Seattle–Everett Interurban ran on February 20, 1939. Everett experienced a major rise in unemployment as demand for lumber products dropped, with an estimated 32 percent of property taxes left unpaid in 1932. Charitable organizations in the area set up relief programs and provided work for unemployed residents, including commencing work on a 185-acre (75 ha) park and golf course in North Everett that later became American Legion Memorial Park . The federal Works Progress Administration employed local workers to construct
7788-669: The Snohomish River. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 48.49 square miles (125.59 km ), of which 33.45 square miles (86.64 km ) is land and 15.04 square miles (38.95 km ) is water. The city's western boundary with Mukilteo is generally defined by Japanese Gulch on the edge of the Boeing Everett Assembly Plant and its auxiliary buildings. The southwestern edge of Everett borders an unincorporated area that includes Paine Field and
7906-556: The Winds Arena and Everett Aquasox at Funko Field . The earliest humans entered the Puget Sound region approximately 12,000 years before present after the recession of the Vashon Glacier . The earliest evidence of human habitation on the Port Gardner Peninsula dates back to approximately 2,000 years before present. The Snohomish people , who had many villages along the Snohomish River and around Possession Sound , had their principal settlement at Preston Point, known in
8024-476: The Winds Arena) opened in 2003 as an indoor sports venue, convention center , and community ice rink . The county government redeveloped its Everett office campus by building a new administrative center, jail, parking garage , and public plaza that opened in 2005. In the 2010s, two new downtown hotels were opened along with several apartment buildings that were encouraged by relaxed zoning policies. As
8142-641: The area's lumber activities increased. Other industries also expanded in Everett, including a local cannery , a brick factory, and several ore smelters. The discovery of new mineral deposits in Monte Cristo fueled a population boom, along with the completion of the Everett and Monte Cristo Railway under the ownership of Rockefeller. The city also benefited from the Klondike Gold Rush , building several steamboats to transport prospectors and entrepreneurs. In its early years, Everett launched
8260-670: The bulk of the city's then-largest annexation , of 900 acres (360 ha) near Madison Street on December 31, 1959. A second round of South Everett annexations completed in 1961 and 1972 added 10,300 acres (4,200 ha) to the city, including the Lowell area, and boosted its population to over 50,000. Everett's second high school, Cascade High School , opened in 1961 to serve the annexed areas. The new suburban neighborhoods were linked via Interstate 5 , which opened from North Seattle to Everett in February 1965 and bypassed U.S. Route 99 with
8378-399: The city and have elected leaders. Various neighborhoods in Everett have views of the Cascade and Olympic mountains, including Mount Baker and Mount Rainier . As of 2019 , Everett's 19 recognized neighborhood associations are: Downtown Everett is generally defined as the area north of Pacific Avenue, east of West Marine View Drive, south of Everett Avenue, and west of Broadway. It
8496-487: The company to avoid taxing the industrial areas and exclude the town of Lowell , which predated Everett. On April 27, 1893, the citizens of Everett voted 670–99 in favor of incorporating as a city, and elected Thomas Dwyer as mayor . The incorporation was certified by the Snohomish County government on May 4, 1893. The city's privately owned streetcar system launched on July 3, 1893, with lines connecting
8614-515: The completion of the Great Northern Railway across Stevens Pass on January 6, 1893. The railroad did not terminate in Everett as originally hoped by land speculators, instead continuing along the shoreline of Puget Sound to Seattle . Following the acquisition of tidelands on the waterfront, which had been in dispute, the Everett Land Company allowed for a municipal government to be formed. The initial city boundaries were set by
8732-423: The construction of Boeing 's aircraft assembly plant at Paine Field in 1967. Boeing's presence brought additional industrial and commercial development to Everett, as well as new residential neighborhoods to the south and west of the peninsula that was annexed by the city. Boeing remains the city's largest employer, alongside the U.S. Navy , which has operated Naval Station Everett since 1994. Everett remains
8850-481: The end of the decade, Everett had 11 lumber mills, 16 shingle mills, and 17 combined mills—surpassing every other city in the state and earning it the nicknames of "Milltown" and the "City of Smokestacks". The Weyerhaeuser Company opened its larger second mill, named Mill B, on the Snohomish River in April 1915 with a 203-foot (62 m) smokestack and the ability to process 1,000,000 board feet of timber. The city gained its first interurban railway in 1903 with
8968-540: The end of the decade. The widespread adoption of the automobile lead to the construction of new roads out of Everett and Snohomish County to neighboring regions. The earliest iteration of the Stevens Pass Highway opened in 1925, providing the second automobile crossing of the Cascade Mountains in the state and access to new timberland and other resources. The highway was later improved with
9086-718: The following day and Greyhound intercity bus service that summer. Amtrak was initially expected to begin serving Everett Station in July 2002, but the construction of a passing track delayed the move of the Cascades and Empire Builder from Bond Street Station to November 12. Construction of a Sounder commuter rail platform and rail spur was approved by the Everett City Council in September 2002, pending reimbursement from Sound Transit and Amtrak for its cost of $ 726,000. Sounder service to King Street Station in Seattle via Edmonds began with special Seattle Seahawks gameday service on December 22, 2003, carrying 700 passengers on
9204-559: The former shipyard site on Port Gardner Bay as the site of a new military base in 1984 under the Strategic Homeport program. Naval Station Everett and its 1,600-foot (490 m) pier were constructed between 1987 and 1994 alongside auxiliary facilities located to the north in Smokey Point . The first ships arrived in September 1994. Naval Station Everett was the long-term home of several aircraft carriers , including
9322-629: The inaugural run of the Sounder North Line (now the N ;Line). Sound Transit expanded parking capacity at Everett Station to 1,067 spaces with the addition of 440 stalls, located east of the station and connected via a pedestrian overpass, that opened in May 2009 at a cost of $ 13.6 million. The southern lot of the station was cleared to build the terminus of Community Transit's Swift Bus Rapid Transit Blue Line , which began service on November 29, 2009, connecting Everett to Shoreline via
9440-541: The late 1960s. By the end of the decade, Everett had annexed additional areas to stretch the city boundaries west to Mukilteo and south to Silver Lake. A new freeway, State Route 526 , was built to connect the plant to Interstate 5 at the Eastmont Interchange, where the Everett Mall was planned to be built. The mall was built in stages, beginning with a Sears store in February 1969 and ending with
9558-460: The late 20th century, when book accounts were published and a historic marker was installed overlooking the former docks. The local timber industry continued its boom and bust cycle into the 1920s, suffering from price swings but benefiting from the 1923 Japanese earthquake to supply lumber and the opening of the Panama Canal . The Clough-Hartley shingle mill claimed to be the largest in
9676-516: The main building are the bus bays, which are centered around a covered walkway that connects the train platforms to the Swift bus rapid transit station, served by the Blue Line . 1,067 short-term parking spaces are located around the station complex, including the initial parking lot west of the tracks and an additional parking lot accessible by a pedestrian bridge over the tracks. In addition to
9794-479: The modern city of Everett has two names: dᶻəɬigʷəd , the name of Forgotten Creek near the waterfront; or hibulb , which comes from the name of Preston Point and the village. The name hibulb itself originates from hibuləb , which means "water bubbling out of the ground." It is related to the word bələwəb , meaning "boiling" or "bubbling." In 2013, the City of Everett and Tulalip Tribes installed signage at Legion Park to display illustrations of
9912-504: The morning commute and four trains from Seattle during the evening commute, only on weekdays and during special events. Train service to Everett is most often disrupted and canceled during the autumn and winter seasons because of landslides along the shoreline of the Puget Sound , where the BNSF mainline tracks run. During the 2012–2013 winter season, a record-high of 206 passenger trains between Everett and Seattle were canceled, prompting
10030-483: The municipal water supply. The Port Gardner Peninsula was formed during the northward retreat of Vashon Glaciation during an ice age 14,000 years before present. The underlying soil is generally loamy and includes gravelly sand in the glacial outwash . Everett is near the Southern Whidbey Island Fault , a shallow earthquake fault zone that runs near the western edge of the city and
10148-520: The new settlement on the Snohomish River attracted land speculators and commitments to build lumber mills and other industrial enterprises. The first post office opened in July at a general store on the bayfront, where the Seattle and Montana Railroad was built in October. By the end of the year, Everett had gained its first school, saloon , church, and sawmill. The Swalwell Brothers had begun selling property in Riverside along Hewitt Avenue, which
10266-551: The new space in June 2023. A seasonal farmers' market at the station was established in 2019 and opened on Wednesdays with vendors along 32nd Street, which was closed to traffic. It was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic and returned in 2023 with an artificial turf surface laid over the street. The City of Everett and ZGF Partnership were recognized by the Puget Sound Regional Council with
10384-482: The opening of the Hewitt Avenue Trestle in 1939, crossing the Snohomish River and Ebey Island on an elevated viaduct . The Pacific Highway (part of U.S. Route 99 ) was completed in 1927 with the opening of four bridges across the Snohomish River delta to Marysville . Everett was also among the first cities in the U.S. to replace its streetcars with buses , doing so in 1923, and the last train on
10502-562: The opening of the Snohomish Interurban . This was followed by the Seattle Interurban on May 2, 1910, which ran hourly on an inland route via Alderwood Manor . Everett became a first-class city in 1907 and had a population of nearly 25,000 residents by 1910, a quarter of whom were foreign-born. The local lumber economy prospered during the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake , which created
10620-451: The peninsula was Dennis Brigham, a carpenter from Worcester, Massachusetts , who claimed a 160-acre (65 ha) homestead and built a cabin for himself. Several other families established their own homesteads, as well as a general store and a sawmill that quickly went out of business. Over the next several years a handful of loggers moved to the area, but plans for a settlement were not conceived until 1890. During an Alaskan cruise via
10738-514: The peninsula, generally dividing themselves between the Bayside facing Port Gardner and Riverside facing the Snohomish River. The Rucker Brothers' plat was withdrawn after an agreement to donate half of their holdings was reached with Hewitt, who promised a series of industrial developments under the "Remarkable Document", which was also used to acquire property from other landowners in the area. Everett gained its first businesses in early 1891, as
10856-510: The primary eastern border. The northeastern boundary includes portions of Smith Island in the river delta reaching towards Marysville ; a series of highway bridges connect Everett to Marysville to the north and Lake Stevens to the east by crossing the Snohomish River delta. The city boundaries also include 3,729 acres (1,509 ha) of forest surrounding Lake Chaplain , a reservoir in the Cascade Mountains that provides part of
10974-467: The project forward. The original concept for the 139-acre (56 ha) property was an entertainment center with shopping, housing, offices, and parks. The riverfront project was ultimately divided into three sections: a southern portion for 235 single-family homes that was constructed in 2016; a center portion with commercial space, apartments, a movie theater, and a small park; and a northern portion with 190 townhomes . A similar redevelopment plan for
11092-633: The proximity of the Pacific Ocean . Under the Köppen climate classification system, Everett is described as having a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb). The city marks the north end of the Puget Sound Convergence Zone , a local weather phenomenon caused by colliding air currents from the region's mountain ranges that produces heavier rain and stronger winds than the rest of the region. The warmest month for Everett
11210-607: The region's homeless population grew, Everett added two supportive housing buildings in downtown to provide 150 units of low-income housing with access to social services. Boeing selected Everett as the main site of its 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 programs, which did not require major building expansions. The company also partnered with the county government to create the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour , an aviation museum at Paine Field that opened in 2005. The Boeing 777X program launched in 2013 with plans to build
11328-636: The regional commercial center following the end of the war, with four large department stores and dozens of smaller retailers and restaurants in a six-block radius of Hewitt Avenue and Colby Avenue. The population boom triggered construction of new housing areas around the peninsula and new schools, with enrollment in the Everett School District increasing from 6,000 in 1941 to 11,600 in 1951. The school district also built Everett Memorial Stadium in 1947 to host high school sports and civic events. A new public housing complex, Baker Heights,
11446-428: The short-term parking lots, there are 25 designated Amtrak/Greyhound parking stalls and eight rideshare vehicles stalls located at the front of the station building. The station building is a four-floor brick-and-glass structure housing 64,000 square feet (5,900 m ) that includes ticketing offices, a waiting area, classrooms, and community rooms. The front façade mainly comprises a three-story glass wall inside of
11564-544: The station building to house classrooms and space for career counseling services, inspired by a similar project in Oakland, California . The Sound Transit Board passed a resolution in February 1999 allowing the use of $ 14 million to begin work on the Everett Multimodal Facility, which was to be the terminus for Sounder commuter rail and Sound Transit Express bus service. A groundbreaking ceremony
11682-618: The station, serving as the terminus for local service from Smokey Point , Marysville , Snohomish , Lake Stevens , and Monroe ; CT also debuted their Swift Blue Line bus rapid transit service in 2009, with Everett Station as the northern terminus of the route along the Highway 99 corridor to Shoreline . Sound Transit runs three of its ST Express bus routes out of Everett Station, with peak-only, limited-stop service to Seattle and Bellevue , as well as all-day service to Lynnwood Transit Center , along Interstate 5 . Skagit Transit runs
11800-491: The steamers Verona and Calista from Seattle to Everett on November 5, when they were confronted at the docks by McRae and his posse of 200 citizen deputies, who feared violence and arson from the group. After a heated debate followed by several minutes of gunfire, five people on the Verona were killed and two deputies on the dock had been mortally wounded from friendly fire ; an unofficial death toll of twelve IWW members
11918-517: The west and Interstate 5 to the east. The train platforms are located on the east side of the station building and bus bays, along three BNSF -owned railway tracks. The covered west platform, used by the Sounder commuter rail service, is located directly east of the station building, while a partially sheltered platform, used by Amtrak, is situated on the second set of tracks and is accessible by several pedestrian at-grade crossings. Directly south of
12036-408: The world, producing 1.5 million wood shingles per day; the city produced approximately 4.5 million shingles and 3.5 million board feet of lumber per day in 1920. The Port of Everett was created on July 13, 1918, to enable public ownership of the waterfront and promote economic development in the city. By the end of the 1920s, the port had opened the county's first airport on Ebey Island and acquired
12154-724: Was also home to local socialist groups and organizers, who published the Labor Journal and The Commonwealth on a weekly basis until 1914. Several survivors of the September 1907 anti-Indian riots in Bellingham settled in Everett for two months, but were beaten and forcefully evicted by a mob. The city's labor unrest culminated in the Everett massacre on November 5, 1916, the deadliest event in Pacific Northwest labor history. A strike of shingle weavers began at local mills in May 1916 and continued for months with violent attacks from mill owners, which attracted attention from
12272-414: Was amended several times with the Rucker Brothers, by then junior partners in the company. Rockefeller called his investment into question and appointed Frederick Gates to begin divestment while Colby and Hoyt remained as the leaders of the company. Several of the major businesses in Everett closed or failed during the three-year peak of the economic depression, but work on Alexander McDougall 's Whaleback
12390-454: Was approved in a ballot measure in 1996 after an earlier failed attempt. The transit agency opened a multimodal train and bus center, Everett Station , in February 2003 to replace scattered downtown facilities for Amtrak , Greyhound , and local transit. It would also serve as the northern terminus for Sounder commuter rail and Sound Transit Express buses, which both connect Everett to Seattle. A six-mile (9.7 km) section of Interstate 5
12508-424: Was built in 1943 to house military personnel amid a local shortage, providing 1,275 apartments that later went to low-income families. The first suburban-style supermarket opened on Evergreen Way (part of U.S. Route 99) in 1950 and was followed by strip malls and similar big box stores along the highway by the end of the decade. The areas surrounding the highway were developed into suburban housing and made up
12626-502: Was demolished a year later, marking the end of the lumber economy's dominance. The aerospace industry in Everett began growing in the late 1960s after Boeing began constructing its assembly plant at Paine Field, bringing suppliers and subcontractors to the area. Since the 1990s, the city government has encouraged economic development in other industries to add diversity, particularly in the technology sector. The Port of Everett has also developed its own industrial park in North Everett that
12744-414: Was determined from the recovery of underwater bodies. At least 50 people were injured, including McRae, and 297 were arrested in Everett and Seattle; only one IWW member, Thomas Tracy, was ultimately tried and found not guilty of first-degree murder after a two-month trial. The shingle weavers strike ended on November 10, 1916, with no concessions from the mill owners, and local residents turned against
12862-602: Was discovered in 1994. In the 1990s, local geologists also found evidence of a tsunami and soil liquefaction in deposits under the Snohomish River delta that were not directly connected to the South Whidbey Island Fault. The city government established its emergency management and preparedness office in 2002 and conducts regular disaster drills to simulate a potential response. The southwestern neighborhoods of Everett include several ravines formed by local creeks that drain into Port Gardner Bay. The area
12980-483: Was finished with the launch of SS City of Everett in October 1894, the largest to be built on Puget Sound at the time. The Everett Women's Book Club was established in 1894 and opened the city's first hospital and public library , which would later expand into the Everett Public Library system. Despite the economic turmoil, Everett continued to grow with the addition of new businesses as
13098-399: Was followed by apartments and restaurants. The opening of the first apartment building was delayed due to a large fire in July 2020 that destroyed the entirety of the unfinished four-story structure. New residential buildings were also completed in downtown Everett and the waterfront, adding 650 apartments in the early 2020s. The Everett Housing Authority announced plans in 2024 to redevelop
13216-580: Was formerly located on the 2nd floor of the station building, providing baccalaureate and graduate degrees through local universities and colleges until it moved to the campus of Everett Community College in 2010. The Everett branches of WorkForce and WorkSource , public employment services operated by the Washington State Employment Security Department that provide career development training and job placement assistance to unemployed, are located on
13334-575: Was held on July 13, 2000, allowing for construction on Everett Station to begin. Sound Transit began with the construction of the Pacific Avenue overpass , replacing an earlier at-grade crossing , that opened on November 14, 2001 at a cost of $ 20 million. The station building was designed by the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership and built by Wilder Construction Company in 2000 and 2001. The $ 46.9 million station
13452-402: Was laid 100 feet (30 m) wide and became the main east–west thoroughfare from the riverfront when it was completed in June 1892. The Everett Land Company did not initially organize a municipal government, leaving local issues to be resolved by a "citizen's committee" formed by 21 residents on March 21, 1892. The area had an estimated population of 5,000 by the end of the year, shortly before
13570-447: Was opened during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 4, 2002, attended by Everett Mayor Ed Hansen, Governor Gary Locke , U.S. Representative Rick Larsen , Snohomish County Executive Bob Drewel and Sound Transit Board chairman and King County Executive Ron Sims . Initially, only Everett Transit and Community Transit operated out of the station on opening day, but they were quickly joined by Sound Transit Express service
13688-544: Was rebuilt by the state government from 2005 to 2008 by adding new lanes and improving several interchanges at a cost of $ 263 million. Everett remains home to one of the most congested stretches of I-5, which is also among the worst in the United States for travel delays. Downtown Everett remained a center for new development in the 2000s and 2010s, with several projects completed by local governments and private developers. The Everett Events Center (now Angels of
13806-571: Was recognized as an All-America City by the National Civic League in 2002 and has been a member of the Tree City USA program since 1993. The city's Delta neighborhood underwent extensive environmental cleanup that began in the 2000s with funds from Asarco after the discovery of soil contamination from the shuttered smelter. Everett was identified as a key transport hub under the regional Sound Transit system, which
13924-446: Was the site of labor unrest during the 1910s, which culminated in the Everett massacre in 1916 that killed several members of the Industrial Workers of the World . The area was connected by new interurban railways and highway bridges in the 1920s, transforming it into a major commercial hub, and gained an airport at Paine Field in 1936. The city's economy transitioned away from lumber and towards aerospace after World War II , with
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