census-designated place in
census-designated place of
downstream on North Creek
- Captain George Vancouver names Port Townsend on May 8, 1792. (historylink.org)
On May 8, 1792, British Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver (1757-1798) names an extensive bay at the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula for the Marquis of Townshend, a British general. The “h” is later dropped and the bay is now called Port Townsend. The city of Port Townsend, now the county seat of Jefferson County, is founded in the 1850s at the mouth of the bay and adopts its name.
- Bothell West, Washington (Wikipedia)
Bothell West is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 16,607 at the 2010 census. Bothell West is one of several CDPs that were created out of the former North Creek CDP in 2010.
