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Jetty Island began as a riprap jetty to provide a navigation channel and protected harbor in the late 19th century. The island is composed of sediment from the Snohomish River; material that was created by the maintenance dredging of the Snohomish River was used to build the island.
The park sits on a ridge that runs parallel to the Snohomish River. The ridge, which reaches nearly 800 feet (240 m) at Bald Hill, [2] consists of vertical basalt outcroppings that rise from the river floor. Settlers arrived when Mitchell Lord purchased 80 acres (320,000 m 2) on the hill in 1878 and started dairying on his 130-acre farm in 1884 ...
Snohomish County (/ s n oʊ ˈ h oʊ m ɪ ʃ /) is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.With a population of 827,957 as of the 2020 census, [1] it is the third-most populous county in Washington, after nearby King and Pierce counties, and the 72nd-most populous in the United States.
Its two forks rise in the Cascades in eastern Snohomish County, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness and join to form the mainstem Sauk River at Bedal Peak. From there the river flows northwest from there through a remote section of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest to Darrington, then north to join the Skagit River from the south at Rockport.
Darrington is a town in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.It is located in a North Cascades mountain valley formed by the Sauk and North Fork Stillaguamish rivers. . Darrington is connected to nearby areas by State Route 530, which runs along the two rivers towards the city of Arlington, located 30 miles (48 km) to the west, and Rockpo
Quil Ceda Village is the first tribal political subdivision in the nation established under this Act, and the only federal municipality besides Washington, D.C. [10] The village is chartered by the tribe as a consolidated borough with a council–manager government.
Silvana is located on an island in the Stillaguamish River floodplain. [4] The main channel of the river passes to the north of the island, while South Slough to the southwest and Cook Slough to the southeast also form the general boundaries of the community.
The town survived as a tourist destination for several more decades, but the county road was flooded out in December 1980, and the only remaining business in town, a lodge, burned down in 1983. [7] That same year, a nonprofit group called Monte Cristo Preservation Association stepped in to save and restore the historical site. [8]