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128-653: US 2 begins in Everett at an intersection with State Route 529 (SR 529) in Everett and travels east to an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5). The highway travels over the Cascade Range through Stevens Pass , connecting the western and eastern parts of the state. US 2 becomes concurrent with US 97 from Peshastin to Orondo , crossing the Columbia River in Wenatchee on

256-628: 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

384-605: 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

512-510: 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,

640-711: A diamond interchange with 88th Street. The two-lane road continues southeast along the Scenic Subdivision of the Northern Transcon , a BNSF rail line, into Monroe . The highway travels past the Evergreen State Fairgrounds and intersects SR 522 before entering downtown Monroe. US 2, now part of a National Scenic Byway named the Stevens Pass Greenway, continues through the city of Monroe and forms

768-541: A freeway along the Stevens Pass corridor. In 2023, the Sultan city government endorsed plans to widen US 2 to four lanes and replace several intersections with roundabouts. In addition to the freeway expansion, WSDOT is considering a total replacement of the westbound Hewitt Avenue Trestle that would cost between $ 750 million to $ 1 billion. One of the options in the early feasibility study conducted in 2017 included

896-520: 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

1024-479: 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;

1152-472: 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

1280-503: 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

1408-422: 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

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1536-613: 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 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

1664-575: 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

1792-627: 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

1920-480: 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

2048-412: A roundabout. From Monroe to Gold Bar , US 2 would be expanded to a four-lane highway, with a roundabout connecting the highway to the city of Gold Bar, and become a two-lane highway with wider shoulder lanes to Skykomish. Seasonal traffic congestion in the Sultan area, which causes backups that overflow onto side streets, have inspired proposals to build an additional bypass, a two-street couplet , or

2176-607: A series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume. This is expressed in terms of annual average daily traffic (AADT), which is a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year. In 2013, WSDOT calculated that the busiest section of US 2 within Washington was the Hewitt Avenue Trestle above the Snohomish River east of Everett , carrying over 76,000 vehicles, while

2304-630: A short connector to downtown Wenatchee, and US 97 Alternate , an alternate route to Chelan , in Sunnyslope before crossing the Richard Odabashian Bridge over the Columbia River and into Douglas County . The two highways continue east into East Wenatchee and turn north at the western terminus of SR 28 . US 2 and US 97 continue north between the Columbia River to the west and Badger Mountain to

2432-768: 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

2560-529: 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

2688-679: 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

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2816-674: 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

2944-729: A vehicle toll, which sparked public outcry on social media. The study also lists an increased gas tax , federal grants, and public-private partnerships as potential revenue sources for the project. Washington State Route 529 Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 949923419 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:45:16 GMT Everett, Washington Everett ( / ˈ ɛ v ə r ɪ t / ; Lushootseed : dᶻəɬigʷəd )

3072-511: 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

3200-511: 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

3328-748: 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

3456-430: 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

3584-694: 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

3712-682: Is signed as a spur route of US 395. The highway continues west of Mead and intersects SR 206 , a road serving Mount Spokane State Park , before becoming a four-lane divided highway parallel the Kooteani River Subdivision of the BNSF Northern Transcon. US 2 travels north along the Little Spokane River through Colbert and Chattaroy before leaving Spokane County and entering Pend Oreille County . The divided highway ends at

3840-409: Is the county seat and most populous city of Snohomish County, Washington , United States. It is 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle and 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

3968-511: 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

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4096-717: The Columbia Plateau , intersecting SR 172 at Farmer . US 2 becomes concurrent with SR 17 as it descends into the Grand Coulee south of Banks Lake , becoming part of the Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway . The byway travels off US 2 and onto SR 155 east of Coulee City at Fordair , continuing north through Grant County towards the Grand Coulee Dam . US 2 travels east into Lincoln County between

4224-694: The Ebey Slough . US 2 turns southeast at the east end of the trestle in Cavalero at an interchange with SR 204 , which serves Lake Stevens . The limited-access road travels around the city of Snohomish , intersecting Bickford Avenue in an at-grade intersection and SR 9 in a diamond interchange . US 2 turns south and crosses over the Pilchuck River and the Centennial Trail before its limited-access road ends at

4352-699: The Idaho state line at the northern terminus of SR 41 in Newport and ID-41 in Oldtown, Idaho . US 2 follows the route of several wagon roads and early state highways that themselves followed the route of the Skykomish River and the Great Northern Railway , a transcontinental railroad that was completed in 1893. A wagon road from Snohomish to Skykomish was completed in

4480-485: The Idaho state line in Newport via a short branch route. US 10 was relocated to a southern route in 1939, crossing the Columbia River at Vantage , and the former route was replaced by US 10 Alternate the following year. A proposal from representatives of the highway departments of Idaho and Washington to extend US 2 to Everett was considered by the AASHO's U.S. Route Numbering Committee in January 1946, but

4608-538: 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

4736-711: 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

4864-549: 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

4992-434: 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

5120-638: The Richard Odabashian Bridge . The highway continues east across the Columbia Plateau in Central Washington and crosses the Grand Coulee while concurrent with SR 17 west of Coulee City. The highway travels into Spokane concurrent with I-90 and US 395 and leaves both highways continuing northeast to Newport. US 2 leaves Washington at the Idaho state line, located along SR 41 in Newport and Idaho State Highway 41 (ID-41) in Oldtown, Idaho . The present route of US 2 follows several wagon roads that were built in

5248-479: 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

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5376-708: The Senator Sam C. Guess Memorial Bridge before splitting into the one-way pairing of Division and Ruby streets. Division Street continues north past the NorthTown Mall and the eastern terminus of SR 291 at Francis Street before US 2 and US 395 split. US 2 travels northeast through Country Homes on the Newport Highway to an interchange with the North Spokane Corridor , an incomplete freeway bypass of Spokane that

5504-471: 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 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

5632-626: 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 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

5760-821: The Tye River past the town of Skykomish and the Cascade Tunnel towards Stevens Pass . The pass, located 4,061 feet (1,238 m) above sea level, is also home to the Stevens Pass Ski Area and a trailhead for the Pacific Crest Trail while serving as the point in which US 2 crosses into the Wenatchee National Forest in Chelan County . The highway continues east down Nason Creek to Coles Corner ,

5888-550: 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

6016-695: 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

6144-656: 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

6272-475: 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,

6400-437: 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

6528-605: 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 ,

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6656-572: 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

6784-404: 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 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

6912-413: 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 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

7040-506: 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

7168-431: The Columbia River in 1975, while the former alignment was designated as SR 285 in 1977. The present two-lane expressway north and east of Snohomish was approved in 1969 and opened in October 1983; it was originally intended to also include an unfinished bypass of Monroe . US 97 had its concurrency with US 2 extended from Sunnyslope to Orondo along the east side of the Columbia River in 1987 after US 97

7296-506: 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

7424-517: 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

7552-418: 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

7680-409: 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

7808-432: 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

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7936-405: 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 the Lushootseed language as hibulb (pronounced HEE -bulb ). The village of Hibulb, located below the bluff at the mouth of the Snohomish River,

8064-424: 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

8192-546: 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

8320-505: 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

8448-416: 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

8576-433: The amendment did not make it into the final bill. The Washington state highway system was changed to its current "sign route system" beginning in January 1963 with a state highway renumbering . Under the new system, Interstate highways, U.S. routes, and state routes replaced the primary and secondary highways and were codified under the Revised Code of Washington in 1970. US 2 was re-routed around various cities over

8704-512: 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

8832-561: 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

8960-399: 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

9088-421: 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

9216-624: The completion of the Hewitt Avenue Trestle and a bypass of Snohomish . A series of projects is planned to improve the US ;2 corridor between Snohomish and Skykomish by expanding the highway near various cities and the completion of a bypass around Monroe . US 2 is defined by the Washington State Legislature as SR 2, part of the Revised Code of Washington as § 47.17.005 . Every year, WSDOT conducts

9344-515: 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

9472-402: The early 2000s, WSDOT began planning a series of 56 projects to improve the US 2 corridor between Snohomish and Skykomish, where the highway is two lanes wide and has been the site of over 2,600 collisions between 1999 and 2007 that caused 47 fatalities. A study, conducted by WSDOT in 2007, divided the corridor into four segments, each with a specialized development plan. The study suggested

9600-538: The east, passing the Rocky Reach Dam and its reservoir, Lake Entiat before reaching Orondo . US 2 and US 97 split at Orondo, with US 97 continuing north along the Columbia River towards Chelan and US 2 traveling east up Pine Canyon onto the Waterville Plateau . The highway travels through the town of Waterville via several turns on city streets before heading due east across

9728-481: 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

9856-540: 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

9984-451: The expansion of the limited-access highway from Snohomish to the western city limits of Monroe to four lanes, including an interchange at Bickford Avenue that was later completed in September 2013. A wider median with rumble strips was added to some sections of US 2 between Snohomish and Monroe in 2019. WSDOT plans to move US 2 onto a northern bypass of Monroe, which would avoid the business district and intersect SR 522 with

10112-559: 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

10240-475: The intersection of Hewitt Avenue and Maple Street, signed as SR 529 , and its westbound lanes ending at the intersection of California Street and Maple Street (SR 529). The highway travels east onto the Hewitt Avenue Trestle, crossing the Snohomish River after an interchange with I-5 . The four-lane trestle continues east across Ebey Island , intersecting Homeacres Road before crossing

10368-610: The late 1880s, while another wagon road along the Wenatchee River from Leavenworth to Sunnyslope was completed by 1904. The modern-day route of US 2 between Snohomish and Monroe was completed as a county wagon road in 1904. The state of Washington began maintaining State Road 7 in 1909, traveling from Peshastin to Spokane on what would become the Sunset Highway and US 2. The easternmost segment of US 2 within Washington, from Spokane to Newport ,

10496-597: 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

10624-521: The late 19th century by local railroad companies, including the Stevens Pass Highway along the Skykomish River . The state of Washington began maintaining sections of what would become US 2 with the extension of State Road 7 in 1909, from Peshastin to Spokane on the Sunset Highway and later State Road 2 . In addition to State Road 2, State Road 23 was created in 1915, traveling north from Spokane to Newport, and

10752-460: 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

10880-627: The least busiest section of US 2 is in Moses Coulee , carrying 630 vehicles. The entire route of US 2 within Washington is designated as part of the National Highway System , classifying it as important to the national economy, defense, and mobility. WSDOT designates US 2 as a Highway of Statewide Significance, which includes highways that connect major communities in the state of Washington . US 2 begins in downtown Everett, with its eastbound lanes starting at

11008-530: 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

11136-483: 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

11264-520: 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

11392-505: The next several decades onto limited-access highways to reduce congestion, beginning with the construction of the current westbound Hewitt Avenue Trestle east of Everett, which opened on April 8, 1969. The existing wooden trestle was used by eastbound traffic until it was replaced by a new bridge in 2002. US 2 was routed north of Wenatchee onto the Olds Station Bridge , renamed in 1991 to honor Richard Odabashian , over

11520-482: The northern terminus of SR 203 . The highway leaves the city while parallel to the Skykomish River and travels through the cities of Sultan and Gold Bar . US 2 begins following the South Fork Skykomish River at Index into the Cascade Range , crossing into King County near the town of Baring . The highway enters Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and continues east along

11648-552: The northern terminus of US 195 , which travels south towards Pullman and Lewiston, Idaho . US 2 and US 395 split from I-90 and travel into Downtown Spokane on the one-way pair of Browne and Division streets, serving the Spokane Intermodal Center and Spokane Convention Center before reaching Riverfront Park . Division Street crosses the Spokane River and the Centennial Trail on

11776-410: 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

11904-562: 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

12032-451: 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

12160-514: 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

12288-510: 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

12416-467: 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

12544-633: 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

12672-607: 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

12800-636: 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,

12928-445: 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 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

13056-553: The southern terminus of SR 207 , which serves Lake Wenatchee . US 2 travels due south along the Wenatchee River valley through Leavenworth before it begins a 27-mile-long (43 km) concurrency with US 97 at a diamond interchange east of Peshastin . US 2 and US 97 travel together on a four-lane highway on the north side of the Wenatchee River heading southeast past Cashmere heading towards Wenatchee . The roadway intersects SR 285 ,

13184-563: The southern terminus of SR 211 , located west of Diamond Lake . US 2 continues northeast along the Little Spokane River and enters the city of Newport , splitting into a one-way pair on Washington and Union avenues. The two streets travel north through the city to the eastern terminus of SR 20 and turn east onto Walnut Street and the International Selkirk Loop , where US 2 crosses

13312-491: 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

13440-501: The town boundary. The highway passes Fairchild Air Force Base and becomes a four-lane arterial street through Airway Heights approaching Spokane . US 2 enters the city of Spokane as a four-lane freeway northeast of Spokane International Airport and intersects Airport Way before beginning its 3.82-mile-long (6.15 km) concurrency with I-90 and US 395 at a partial cloverleaf interchange . I-90, US 2 and US 395 travel east into Downtown Spokane and intersects

13568-539: The towns of Hartline and Almira and becomes concurrent with SR 21 in Wilbur for several city blocks. The highway parallels the Columbia River Subdivision of the BNSF Northern Transcon through Bachelor Prairie towards Davenport , where it intersects the termini of SR 28 and SR 25 . US 2 travels into Reardan concurrent with SR 231 and enters Spokane County east of

13696-408: 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

13824-675: Was added to the state highway system in 1915 as State Road 23 and renamed to the Pend Oreille Highway two years later. State Road 7 was renumbered to State Road 2 , part of an east–west highway connecting Seattle to Spokane . The Stevens Pass Highway was opened on July 11, 1925, and traveled from Everett along the Skykomish River and over Stevens Pass towards Leavenworth . The Tumwater Canyon section northwest of Leavenworth opened to traffic on September 1, 1929, and later straightened in 1937. The highway

13952-724: 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

14080-414: 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

14208-454: 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

14336-424: 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

14464-565: 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

14592-414: 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

14720-602: 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

14848-483: 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

14976-399: 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

15104-402: 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

15232-519: Was moved onto the former route of SR 151 . The Stevens Pass Greenway, which became a National Forest Scenic Byway on April 14, 1992, was re-designated as a National Scenic Byway on September 22, 2005. Within Newport, US 2 had an unsigned spur route that traveled on the southbound lanes of ID-41 on the Idaho state line until 1997, when SR 41 was created to avoid confusion. The intersection between US 2 and US 97 east of Peshastin

15360-478: 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

15488-429: Was re-routed in 1939 and replaced by US 10 Alternate , which was routed across Stevens Pass in the 1940s and itself replaced by US 2 in 1946. The primary state highways were replaced by the current state route system during the 1964 state highway renumbering , and US 2 replaced its three concurrent routes. US 2 underwent conversions to limited-access highways during the next several decades, including

15616-544: 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

15744-571: 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

15872-409: Was renumbered to State Road 6 in 1923. The Stevens Pass Highway was transferred to state maintenance in 1931 with the establishment of State Road 15 , traveling from Everett to Peshastin. The United States Highway System was adopted on November 11, 1926, and designated US 10 on the future route of US 2 from Peshastin to Spokane and US 195 from Spokane to Newport. US 10

16000-457: Was replaced by a new diamond interchange completed in October 2008 as part of general improvements to the two highways' concurrency from Peshastin to Sunnyslope. The current interchange between US 2 and the North Spokane Corridor , a spur route of US 395 , was opened in November 2011 to coincide with the opening of the northernmost 5.5 miles (8.85 km) of the future freeway. In

16128-539: Was signed as US 10 from Peshastin to Spokane and US 195 from Spokane to Newport, co-signed with State Road 2 and State Road 6, respectively. The Washington primary and secondary state highway system was adopted by the Washington State Legislature on March 17, 1937, and the three highways that comprise the present route of US 2 were included in the system as Primary State Highway 15 (PSH 15) from Everett to Peshastin, PSH 2 from Peshastin to Spokane, and PSH 6 from Spokane to

16256-638: Was transferred to state maintenance from the Department of Highways in 1931 as State Road 15 . The United States Highway System was adopted by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) on November 11, 1926, and included a shorter US 2, traveling from Bonners Ferry, Idaho to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , and several routes along the modern route of US 2 in Washington. The corridor of US 2

16384-411: Was vetoed. The proposal resurfaced during the committee's meeting on December 20, 1946, and was approved as a replacement of US 10 Alternate from Everett to Bonners Ferry and US 195 from Spokane to Newport. The yet-unbuilt highway across Stevens Pass was also proposed in 1956 as a tunnel that would be funded as an addition to the new Interstate Highway System by Senator Warren G. Magnuson , but

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