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Sammamish, Washington
Sammamish (/səˈmæmɪʃ/ sə-MAM-ish) is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 67,455 at the 2020 census. Located on a plateau, the city is bordered by Lake Sammamish to the west and the Snoqualmie Valley to the east. Sammamish is situated 20 miles east of Seattle, is a member of the Eastside, and is a part of the Seattle metropolitan area.
The name "Sammamish" is an anglicization of the Lushootseed name of the Sammamish people, sc̓ababš. According to historian and writer David Buerge, the name derives from the word sc̓ap, meaning "willow," and the suffix -abš, meaning "people," meaning their name translates to "willow people." Alternatively, according to linguist and anthropologist T.T. Waterman, the name means "meander dwellers."
Lake Sammamish and the adjacent plateau has been Duwamish, Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Sammamish, and Snohomish territory since the last Pleistocene glaciation, before contact with European people. They lived in longhouse villages in seven places on and near the coast of Sammamish Lake. Two of them were in present-day Sammamish.
The Sammamish Plateau was part of unincorporated King County for most of its recorded history. The first settlers arrived in the 1870s and established a trio of resorts by the 1930s.[citation needed] The community of Inglewood was established in 1889 with a plat filed with the county government. While the plateau remained predominantly rural, several other residential areas were established during the early 20th century.[citation needed] The Sunny Hills neighborhood was built in the 1960s and was followed by an elementary school.
Suburban homes, shopping centers, and schools were built on the plateau in the 1970s and 1980s.[citation needed] A vote in 1991 to join neighboring Issaquah failed, as did a vote on incorporation the following year. A renewed movement to become a city, born of frustration with development policies set by the county government, met with voter approval in 1998. Sammamish was officially incorporated on August 31, 1999. The city annexed Klahanie on January 1, 2016.
The city government approved plans in 2008 to develop a denser town center with mixed use zoning and taller buildings. The first two residential buildings and several commercial developments were completed over the following decade, but plans for the largest phase stalled into the 2020s. Construction began in 2024 on 38 townhomes in the phase, which is planned to be followed by more townhomes, 600 market rate apartments, and commercial space.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 24.04 square miles (62.26 km2), of which 20.43 square miles (52.91 km2) are land and 3.61 square miles (9.35 km2) are water.
The city is situated on the shores and hilly terrain east of Lake Sammamish. It is bordered to the south by Issaquah, to the northwest by Redmond, and to the west across Lake Sammamish by Bellevue. Beaver Lake and Pine Lake are the two biggest lakes in Sammamish. Yellow Lake is a major lake in Klahanie.
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Sammamish, Washington
Sammamish (/səˈmæmɪʃ/ sə-MAM-ish) is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 67,455 at the 2020 census. Located on a plateau, the city is bordered by Lake Sammamish to the west and the Snoqualmie Valley to the east. Sammamish is situated 20 miles east of Seattle, is a member of the Eastside, and is a part of the Seattle metropolitan area.
The name "Sammamish" is an anglicization of the Lushootseed name of the Sammamish people, sc̓ababš. According to historian and writer David Buerge, the name derives from the word sc̓ap, meaning "willow," and the suffix -abš, meaning "people," meaning their name translates to "willow people." Alternatively, according to linguist and anthropologist T.T. Waterman, the name means "meander dwellers."
Lake Sammamish and the adjacent plateau has been Duwamish, Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Sammamish, and Snohomish territory since the last Pleistocene glaciation, before contact with European people. They lived in longhouse villages in seven places on and near the coast of Sammamish Lake. Two of them were in present-day Sammamish.
The Sammamish Plateau was part of unincorporated King County for most of its recorded history. The first settlers arrived in the 1870s and established a trio of resorts by the 1930s.[citation needed] The community of Inglewood was established in 1889 with a plat filed with the county government. While the plateau remained predominantly rural, several other residential areas were established during the early 20th century.[citation needed] The Sunny Hills neighborhood was built in the 1960s and was followed by an elementary school.
Suburban homes, shopping centers, and schools were built on the plateau in the 1970s and 1980s.[citation needed] A vote in 1991 to join neighboring Issaquah failed, as did a vote on incorporation the following year. A renewed movement to become a city, born of frustration with development policies set by the county government, met with voter approval in 1998. Sammamish was officially incorporated on August 31, 1999. The city annexed Klahanie on January 1, 2016.
The city government approved plans in 2008 to develop a denser town center with mixed use zoning and taller buildings. The first two residential buildings and several commercial developments were completed over the following decade, but plans for the largest phase stalled into the 2020s. Construction began in 2024 on 38 townhomes in the phase, which is planned to be followed by more townhomes, 600 market rate apartments, and commercial space.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 24.04 square miles (62.26 km2), of which 20.43 square miles (52.91 km2) are land and 3.61 square miles (9.35 km2) are water.
The city is situated on the shores and hilly terrain east of Lake Sammamish. It is bordered to the south by Issaquah, to the northwest by Redmond, and to the west across Lake Sammamish by Bellevue. Beaver Lake and Pine Lake are the two biggest lakes in Sammamish. Yellow Lake is a major lake in Klahanie.