North Bend is a city in King County, Washington, United States, on the outskirts of the Seattle metropolitan area. The population was 5,731 at the 2010 census and an estimated 7,136 in 2018.

Since the deferment of Weyerhaeuser’s Snoqualmie sawmill, North Bend has become a prosperous bedroom community for Seattle, located practically 30 miles (48 km) to the west. The town was made famous by David Lynch’s television series Twin Peaks, which was partially filmed in North Bend. The community is also home to Nintendo North Bend, the main North American production capability and distribution center for the video game console manufacturer Nintendo.

The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has resided in the Snoqualmie Prairie, including the Place now known as North Bend, for thousands of years. This prairie southeast of Snoqualmie Falls was the ancestral home, hunting and forage grounds for the Snoqualmie people and was located in the upper Snoqualmie Valley close the Snoqualmie River fork confluence, Mount Si, and the western foothills of the Cascade Range.

One of the first explorers to the upper Snoqualmie Valley was Samuel Hancock who arrived in 1851. Hancock traveled upriver with his Snoqualmie guides, fording canoes something like the falls to achieve Snoqualmie Prairie, searching for coal deposits. He was taken to a “very extensive and fertile prairie” about two miles above Snoqualmie Falls. The beautiful entrance grassland came to be known as the Snoqualmie Prairie, the heart of which is now known as Tollgate and Meadowbrook farms. The Snoqualmies, led by Chief Patkanim, later sided like early settlers in the 1850s Indian Wars and were one of the signatory tribes of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, which futile to assign an Indian reservation for the Snoqualmies. Some of the soldiers in those wars, such as the brothers and sisters Kellogg, established cabins near remaining Snoqualmie blockhouses; however, the first remaining American resident in the valley was Jeremiah Borst, who arrived in 1858.

After the Homestead Act of 1862, more settlers ventured to the Snoqualmie Valley, with the first families settling near Borst upon the easterly halt of Snoqualmie Prairie. In 1865, Matts Peterson homesteaded the site that ultimately became North Bend. In 1879, Peterson sold the property to Borst and moved east of the Cascades. Borst wrote to Will Taylor, who had left the Pacific Northwest to pursue mining in California, and offered him the Peterson homestead in difference of opinion for labor. Taylor returned and became the driving force in developing the town though expanding his property to count up a successful trading publicize and boarding home for travelers beyond Snoqualmie Pass. On February 16, 1889, with the upcoming railroad boom, Taylor formally platted a town including his farm, upcoming street plans and building lots, giving it the name “Snoqualmie”. Later that summer, competing Seattle house speculators afterward platted nearby “Snoqualmie Falls”, choosing a thesame name. Pressured by demands of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway to avoid confusion, Taylor reluctantly renamed his town “Mountain View”. However, the U.S. Post Office Department objected to “Mountain View”, as a town subsequent to that say already existed in northern Whatcom County. To conclude the issue Taylor entirely to constantly rename the community “North Bend”, after its prime location near the large northward fiddle with of the South and Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River. Taylor was snooty of his new, thriving town, but by historical accounts, “He never got more than having his town say taken away.” North Bend was officially incorporated on March 12, 1909, and grew throughout the 20th century, with an prematurely economic focus upon logging, sawmill production, agricultural and dairy farming.