Everett is the county chair of and the largest city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle and is one of the main cities in the metropolitan Place and the Puget Sound region. Everett is the seventh-largest city in the state by population, with 103,019 residents at the 2010 census. The city is primarily situated upon 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 was historically inhabited by the Snohomish people, who had a winter village named Hibulb 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 home in the area and filed a plat for “Everett”, which they named in rave review of Everett Colby, the son of swashbuckler Charles L. Colby. The city was incorporated in 1893, shortly after the start 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 later than Snohomish contested higher than 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 Place was partnered by new interurban railways and highway bridges in the 1920s, transforming it into a major announcement hub, and gained an airstrip 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 jet assembly forest at Paine Field in 1967. Boeing’s presence brought supplementary industrial and personal ad development to Everett, as well as supplementary 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 a major employment center for Snohomish County, but has afterward become a bedroom community for Seattle in recent decades. It is partnered to Seattle by Interstate 5 and various public transit facilities at Everett Station, including the Sounder commuter train, Amtrak, and commuter buses. Everett stages several annual festivals and is also house to juvenile league sports teams, including the Everett Silvertips at Angel of the Winds Arena.

The Port Gardner Peninsula was originally inhabited by local Coast Salish tribes who arrived in the region 10,000 years before gift and settled close modern-day Everett approximately 2,000 years past present. The Snohomish people lived vis-а-vis local waterways in the Possession Sound estuary and had a fortified winter village at Hibulb (also called Hebolb) at the mouth of the Snohomish River. The first Europeans in the Place were explorers from the 1792 Vancouver Expedition, who landed on a beach on the modern Everett quay and claimed the land for England on June 4, the birthday of King George III. Puget Sound was supplementary explored and charted by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1824 and the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes in 1841, ahead of a larger American presence in the area.