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 let pass by population, with 103,019 residents at the 2010 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 share 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 close the mouth of the river. Modern pact in the area began similar to loggers and homesteaders arriving in the 1860s, but plans to construct a city were not conceived until 1890. A consortium of East Coast investors seeking to build a major industrial city acquired house in the area and filed a plat for “Everett”, which they named in great compliment of Everett Colby, the son of traveler 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 taking into account Snohomish contested greater 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 area was united by new interurban railways and highway bridges in the 1920s, transforming it into a major billboard hub, and gained an airdrome 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 forest at Paine Field in 1967. Boeing’s presence brought further industrial and flyer development to Everett, as with ease as further 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 back 1994.

Everett remains a major employment center for Snohomish County, but has furthermore become a bedroom community for Seattle in recent decades. It is united 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 house to youthful 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 near modern-day Everett nearly 2,000 years past present. The Snohomish people lived on the order of 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 upon the enlightened Everett quay and claimed the estate for England upon June 4, the birthday of King George III. Puget Sound was other 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.