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The Census Bureau adopted metropolitan districts in the 1910 census to create a standard definition for urban areas with industrial activity around a central city. [11] At the time, Seattle had the 22nd largest metropolitan district population at 239,269 people, a 195.8 percent increase from the population of the equivalent area in the 1900 census. [12]
This is the main article of a series that covers the history of Seattle, Washington, a city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. Seattle is a major port city that has a history of boom and bust. Seattle has on several occasions been sent into severe decline, but has typically used those periods to successfully ...
"150 Most Influential People in Seattle/King County History: Nominees", The Seattle Times, 2001, archived from the original on 2014-11-16; Keiko Tanaka (2001). "Early Telephone Use in Seattle, 1880s–1920s". Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 92 (4): 190– 202. JSTOR 40492685. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner; Dennis Alan Andersen (2002).
The people of King County voted on September 5, 1911, to create a Port District. King County's Port of Seattle was established as the first Port District in Washington State. The Port of Seattle is King County's only Port District. It is governed by five Port Commissioners, who are elected countywide and serve four-year terms.
Seattle City Council consists of two at-large positions and seven district seats representing the areas shown from 2016 to 2023. Seattle is a charter city, with a mayor–council form of government. From 1911 to 2013, Seattle's nine city councillors were elected at large, rather than by geographic subdivisions. [283]
What is now Seattle has been inhabited since at least the end of the last glacial period (c. 8000 BCE —10,000 years ago). Archaeological excavations at what is now called West Point in Discovery Park, Magnolia confirm settlement within the current city for at least 4,000 years and probably much longer. [1]
The city anticipates the funds to create 655 affordable homes throughout Seattle. The Seattle Housing Levy’s tax rate is 45 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, or $383 a year for the median ...
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft Corporation, attended the Lakeside School, a private middle and high school in Haller Lake, at the northern Seattle city limits. This turned out to have rather dramatic consequences for the entire Seattle area. Microsoft's first product, Microsoft BASIC, came out in 1976.