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Esperance is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. Esperance is an enclave of the city of Edmonds, Washington . The population was 4,007 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] up from 3,601 at the 2010 census .
The suburb of Esperance is the central business district of the town of Esperance, in the Shire of Esperance, Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is located on Esperance Bay, on the Southern Ocean. [2] [3] The suburb of Esperance is on the traditional land of the Njunga people of the Noongar nation.
Originally selected as a siding on the Norseman to Esperance railway in 1916, Red Lake was gazetted as a townsite in 1922. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] An official 1922 map of the townsite shows the town west of the telegraph line and consisted of the north-south running Stephenson and Duke Streets and the east-west running Taylor Street, with 32 blocks of land ...
Bandy Creek is a north-eastern suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern Western Australia.Its local government area is the Shire of Esperance, and it is located 6 kilometres (4 mi) northeast of Esperance's central business district.
West Beach is a suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern Western Australia. It is located south of Esperance's central business district, extending southwesterly for several kilometres along the southern coast. Its local government area is the Shire of Esperance. [2] [3] The suburb was gazetted in 1971. [4]
Due to the terrain, Baxter could not be buried, so his remains were wrapped in a blanket and left behind, and Eyre and Wylie pressed on for another month, after which they were rescued by a French vessel off Thistle Cove near modern-day Esperance, Western Australia. A memorial to Baxter is located 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) south of the roadhouse. [4]
The official History of the Washington State Legislature states "As had been the case in 1882, in Thurston County, Democrats and anti-administration Republicans joined to form the People’s Party". [13] However a Washington local newspaper in 1865 listed the People's Party as one of the main competing parties in an election. [17]
Esperance also has a number of wind turbines supplying electricity to the town. [29] Esperance had the first electrical wind farm in Australia, built at Salmon Beach as a research facility in 1987. In October 2020, a surfer who was a member of the local community in Esperance was killed by a shark at Wylie Bay near the town. [30]