- Pierce County, Washington (data.census.gov)
Pierce County, Washington has 1,668.0 square miles of land area and is the 23rd largest county in Washington by total area. Pierce County, Washington is bordered by Lewis County, Washington, Kittitas County, Washington, Thurston County, Washington, Kitsap County, Washington, King County, Washington, Yakima County, Washington, and Mason County, Washington.
- Alder, Washington
- Alderton, Washington
- Artondale, Washington
- Ashford, Washington
- Browns Point, Washington
- Canterwood, Washington
- Clear Lake, Pierce County, Washington
- Clover Creek, Washington
- Crocker, Washington
- Dash Point, Washington
- Elbe, Washington
- Elk Plain, Washington
- Fife Heights, Washington
- Fort Lewis, Washington
- Frederickson, Washington
- Graham, Washington
- Kapowsin, Washington
- La Grande, Washington
- Lake Tapps, Washington
- Maplewood, Washington
- McChord AFB, Washington
- McKenna, Washington
- McMillin, Washington
- Midland, Washington
- North Fort Lewis, Washington
- North Puyallup, Washington
- Parkland, Washington
- Prairie Heights, Washington
- Prairie Ridge, Washington
- South Creek, Washington
- South Hill, Washington
- Spanaway, Washington
- Summit, Washington
- Summit View, Washington
- Tehaleh, Washington
- Waller, Washington
- Wollochet, Washington
- Bonney Lake, Washington
- Buckley, Washington
- DuPont, Washington
- Eatonville, Washington
- Edgewood, Washington
- Fife, Washington
- Fircrest, Washington
- Gig Harbor, Washington
- Lakewood, Washington
- Milton, Washington
- Orting, Washington
- Pacific, Washington
- Roy, Washington
- Ruston, Washington
- Steilacoom, Washington
- Sumner, Washington
- Tacoma, Washington
- University Place, Washington
- Puyallup, Washington
- Pierce County — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Pierce County, located in southwestern Washington abutting Puget Sound, encompasses an extremely wide range of elevations: from sea level on Puget Sound to 14,410 at the summit of Mount Rainier. The entire footprint of Mount Rainier, an active Cascade volcano encased in more than 35 square miles of snow and glacial ice, lies within the county’s boundaries. Pierce County comprises 1,675 square miles, placing it 23rd in size among Washington’s 39 counties…
- Washington Territorial Legislature incorporates the City of Steilacoom on April 22, 1854. (historylink.org)
On April 22, 1854, Steilacoom becomes the first town in Washington to be incorporated by the new Washington Territorial Legislature. Originally two separate and competing towns founded in 1851 by Lafayette Balch (1825-1862) and John B. Chapman (1797-1877), they are combined into one by the incorporating legislation. Initially Steilacoom grows rapidly as an industrial and economic center. Despite its promising start, railroad construction in the 1870s will bypass the town, and its growth will slow as Tacoma becomes Pierce County’s main industrial and economic center. Steilacoom will eventually evolve into a commuter town surrounded by encroaching suburban development. Local efforts to preserve historic buildings and sites in Steilacoom beginning in the 1960s will lead to the town being named one of the state’s first designated historic districts.
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- Norway (Wikipedia)
Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency; Norway also claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo.
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- Pierce County, Washington (Wikipedia)
Pierce County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 921,130, up from 795,225 in 2010, making it the second-most populous county in Washington, behind King County, and the 60th-most populous in the United States. The county seat and largest city is Tacoma. Formed out of Thurston County on December 22, 1852, by the legislature of Oregon Territory, it was named for U.S. President Franklin Pierce. Pierce County is in the Seattle metropolitan area (formally the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, metropolitan statistical area).
