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Ballard is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, United States.Formerly an independent city, the City of Seattle's official boundaries define it as bounded to the north by Crown Hill (N.W. 85th Street), to the east by Greenwood, Phinney Ridge and Fremont (along 3rd Avenue N.W.), to the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and to the west by Puget Sound's Shilshole Bay. [1]
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
Map of Whittier Heights. Whittier Heights is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington.It is considered part of greater Ballard. [1]The neighborhood is bounded to the west by 15th Avenue NW, beyond which is Loyal Heights; to the north by NW 85th Street, beyond which is Crown Hill; to the east by 8th Avenue NW, beyond which is Greenwood and Phinney Ridge; and to the south by NW 65th Street, beyond ...
Map of Loyal Heights. Loyal Heights is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington.It is considered part of greater Ballard.. The neighborhood is bounded to the west by 28th Avenue NW, beyond which is Sunset Hill; to the north by NW 86th Street, beyond which are North Beach and Blue Ridge; to the east by 15th Avenue NW, beyond which is Whittier Heights; and to the south by NW 65th Street, beyond ...
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Built in 1917, the Ballard Bridge is one of the oldest examples in the state of a double-leaf bascule bridge. [8] It spans Salmon Bay in the Lake Washington Ship Canal, connecting the neighborhood of Ballard with Queen Anne and Magnolia. [12] Also part of the Historic Bridges and Tunnels in Washington Thematic Resource listing [8] 18: Ballard ...
Violent crime in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood is up, according to the latest Seattle police data from its crime dashboard. ‘Very unusual and disconcerting’: violent crime up in Ballard ...
The neighborhood of Ballard is known for a large historic population and presence of immigrants from Sweden; King Gustaf of Sweden read the proclamation inducting the district to the historical registry in 1976, and dedicated the new bell tower at Ballard's Marvin's Garden Park, which housed the original bell from Ballard's old city hall. [3]