downstream on the Skagit River
- Concrete — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
The town of Concrete in northern Skagit County is located on the Skagit River at the mouth of the Baker River. Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Range, Concrete is known as the gateway to the North Cascades. A few homesteaders began settling the area in the 1870s and 1880s, and more arrived over the next couple decades as two communities grew up, Baker on the west side of the Baker River and then Cement City on the east side…
- Silver Firs, Washington (Wikipedia)
Silver Firs is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 22,174 at the 2020 census. It lies northeast of the city of Mill Creek. Silver Firs is one of two CDPs that were created out of the former Seattle Hill-Silver Firs CDP in 2010, the other being Eastmont.
upstream on the Skagit River
- Concrete, Washington (Wikipedia)
Concrete is a town in north-central Skagit County, Washington, United States. It is part of the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area, and had a population of 801 at the 2020 census.