Renton is a city in King County, Washington, United States. Situated 11 miles (18 km) southeast of downtown Seattle, Washington, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. While long an important salmon fishing area for Native Americans, Renton was first settled by people of European descent in the 1860s, and its early economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton is best known as the final assembly point for the Boeing 737 family of commercial airplanes, but it is also home to a growing number of well known manufacturing, technology, and service companies, including Boeing, Paccar, GEICO, Parallels, Inc., Providence Health & Services, and Wizards of the Coast. The population was 90,927 at the 2010 census. Renton currently contains the 8th largest population in the state, and is the 4th largest in King County. The National Football League's Seattle Seahawks have a training facility in Renton.
Population: 90,927
Latitude: 47° 28' 58.37" N
Longitude: -122° 13' 1.45" W
Safeco Field (sometimes referred to as Safeco or The Safe) is a retractable roof baseball stadium located in Seattle, Washington. The stadium, owned and operated by the Washington-King County Stadium Authority, is the home stadium of the Seattle Mar…
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Issaquah (/ˈɪsəkwɑː/ US dict: ĭs′·ə·kwâ) is a city in King County, Washington, United States.
Columbia Center (formerly Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center) is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline and the tallest building in the State of Washington. At 287.4264 m (943.000 ft) it is currently the second talles…
Renton is a city in King County, Washington, United States. Situated 11 miles (18 km) southeast of downtown Seattle, Washington, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. While long an important salmon…
The Fremont Troll (also known as The Troll, or the Troll Under the Bridge) is a public sculpture in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington in the United States.
Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan. It is bordered by the cities of Seattle on the west,…
Medina (/məˈdaɪnə/) is a city located in the Eastside, a region of King County, Washington, United States. Surrounded on the north, west, and south by Lake Washington, opposite Seattle, Medina is bordered by Clyde Hill and Hunts Point, as well as th…
SeaTac /ˈsiːtæk/ is an American city in southern King County, Washington, and an outlying suburb of Seattle, Washington.
The Market Theater Gum Wall is a local landmark in downtown Seattle, in Post Alley under Pike Place Market. Similar to Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, California, the Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick alleyway wall now covered in used chewing g…
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Boeing Field, officially King County International Airport (IATA: BFI, ICAO: KBFI, FAA LID: BFI), is a public airport owned and operated by King County, five miles south of downtown Seattle, Washington. The airport is sometimes referred to as KCIA, …
Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district in Seattle, Washington, United States.
The Seattle Public Library's Central Library is the flagship library of The Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56 meters high) glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on Sunday, May 23,…
Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a Christian university in Seattle, Washington founded in 1891 by the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary.
Federal Way is a city in King County, Washington, United States. Federal Way is located between Seattle and Tacoma. Its northwestern boundary is Puget Sound. It is bordered by Des Moines and Kent on the north, Auburn as well as Lakeland North and La…
KOMO-TV, channel 4, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Seattle, Washington, USA. KOMO-TV is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The station's studios and offices are co-located with sister radio stations KOMO (1000 AM and 97.7 FM), KV…
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was built in three phases in 1949 through 1953 and opened on April 4, 1953. It features a double-decked elevated section of State Route 99 that runs along the Elliott Bay waterfront in the industrial district and downtown of …