Lake Stevens
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city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Washington
- County
- Snohomish
- Incorporated
- November 29, 1960
- Type
- Mayor–council
- Mayor
- Brett Gailey
- Total
- 9.30 sq mi (24.09 km )
- Land
- 9.17 sq mi (23.74 km )
- Water
- 0.14 sq mi (0.35 km )
- Elevation
- 217 ft (66 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 41,350
- Density
- 3,887/sq mi (1,500.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific (PST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 (PDT)
- Fips code
- 53-37900
- Website
- lakestevenswa .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Stevens is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States, that is named for the lake it surrounds. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Everett and borders the cities of Marysville to the northwest and Snohomish to the south. The city's population was 35,630 at the 2020 census.
The lake was named in 1859 for territorial governor Isaac Stevens and was originally home to the Skykomish in the Pilchuck River basin. The first modern settlement on Lake Stevens was founded at the northeastern corner of the lake in 1889. It was later sold to the Rucker Brothers, who opened a sawmill in 1907 that spurred early growth in the area, but closed in 1925 after the second of two major fires. The Lake Stevens area then became a resort community before developing into a commuter town in the 1960s and 1970s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Stevens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.