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Location of Skagit County in Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Skagit County, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Skagit County, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
Fir Island is bounded by North and South Forks of the Skagit River and Skagit Bay of Puget Sound in the southwestern corner of Skagit County, Washington.Triangular in outline, 5.3 miles (8.5 km) east–west by 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north–south with an area of nearly 9,900 acres (40 km 2), Fir Island is occupied by 195 families.
The Skagit River (/ ˈ s k æ dʒ ɪ t / SKAJ-it) is a river in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and northwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 150 mi (240 km) long. The river and its tributaries drain an area of 1.7 million acres (690,000 hectares) of the Cascade Range along the northern end of Puget Sound and flows ...
Near the airport, the Port of Skagit operates a large business park where it provides utilities and leases land and buildings. It also runs an incubator program here, where companies with a sound business plan and strong potential for sales growth, are offered lease rates at one-third the normal market rate during a business’s first year, two-thirds the normal rate in the second year, and ...
The Skagit Valley lies in the northwestern corner of the state of Washington, United States. Its defining feature is the Skagit River , which snakes through local communities which include the seat of Skagit County , Mount Vernon , as well as Sedro-Woolley , Concrete , Lyman - Hamilton , and Burlington .
[5] [6] Another winter longhouse was located across the Skagit River, at the mouth of Day Creek (Lushootseed: sk̓ʷəb). [5] Lyman's first postmaster, B.L. Lyman, named the town for himself. [7] Lyman was officially incorporated on May 8, 1909. Floodwaters in the channel, eroded a hundred feet of property during November 2017. [8]
Skagit City was a town on the western bank of the South Fork Skagit River, less than a mile southeast of where the river forks north and south, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] The Barker's Trading Post along the river, opened in 1869, was partially or fully responsible for drawing people to settle at the townsite, which became an important ...