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Tacoma (/ t ə ˈ k oʊ m ə / tə-KOH-mə) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. [6] A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Bellevue, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park, and 80 miles (130 km) east ...
Mount Rainier from Ricksecker Point, 1932 Tacoma—seat of Pierce County Mount Rainier hazard map. Pierce County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, the population was 921,130, [1] up from 795,225 in 2010, making it the second-most populous county in Washington, behind King County, and the 59th-most populous in the United States.
Shoshone County, Idaho County, and Nez Perce County were established in Washington Territory in 1861, and Boise County in 1863, until they split off into the Idaho Territory in March 1863, leaving the current borders of Washington. [51] Ferguson County, named for Washington legislator James L. Ferguson, was established on January 23, 1863, from ...
Location of Pierce County in Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an ...
Legally, a city in Washington can be described primarily by its class. There are five classes of municipalities in Washington: first-class city, second-class city, town, unclassified city, and code city. First-class cities are the 10 cities with a population over 10,000 at the time of reorganization and operating under a home rule charter.
Pierce County plans to purchase a downtown Tacoma office building this year in order to consolidate office space and transform the current County-City Building into a Pierce County Justice Center ...
Washington's 6th congressional district encompasses the Olympic Peninsula, the Kitsap Peninsula, and most of the city of Tacoma.Its counties include the entirety of Clallam, Kitsap, Mason, Jefferson, and Grays Harbor counties, and part of Pierce County.
A Tacoma resident flashes a smile while riding his scooter through the newly named Dr. W. Joye Hardiman Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024 in Tacoma, WA. Fast-forward to a couple summers ago.