Whatcom County, Washington

bays

borders

capes

census-designated places

cities

coastal processes

Coastal Processes of the Whatcom County Mainland (dnr.wa.gov) Numerous natural erosional and depositional processes operate upon shorelines to create a diversity of coastal landforms. Waves are among the most important causes of this diversity as they remove, build, and shape beaches and sea cliffs.

county of

county park

Deming Homestead Eagle Park

county seat

Bellingham, Washington

creeks

dams

down the Pacific Northwest coast

Blaine, Washington

fossils

Washington State Fossil Sites and Collecting Localities (fossilspot.com)

glacier

Deming Glacier

Hamlet

Nugents Corner

highways

islands

lakes

location

mountain range

mountains

national park

North Cascades National Park

national recreation area

national wildlife refuge

San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge

natural area preserve

Dailey Prairie Natural Area Preserve

northbound on Interstate 5

Canada

northern shoreline

At the northern most reach of Whatcom County’s shoreline is a spit approximately 2000 meters long trending northeasterly from the north side of Birch Point (fig.2.). The spit separates Drayton Harbor from Semiahmoo Bay and provides some protection for small boats and shoreline developments within the bay.

official website

https://www.whatcomcounty.us/

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1153762

peninsula

Lummi Peninsula

photographs

random

During the short period of arrest several canoes had departed with Indians who had promised to bring Sla-hai. But they returned in the evening without the prisoner. An Indian named Charley, in whom Fay had great reliance, told a long and what was intended to be a thrilling story of how he failed to get Sla-hai. The reason he failed was because Sla-hai’s brother frightened him away with a pistol, but Charley was much disappointed that we did not get excited over his recital, and he cooled off very suddenly.

reservation

rivers

road

North Fork Road

roadway

Mosquito Lake Road

southbound on Bellingham Subdivision

Blaine, Washington

southbound on Interstate 5

Skagit County, Washington

southernmost shoreline

spit

state parks

strait

Rosario Strait

suffering

Whatcom county is suffering in much worse ways than Canadian tourism evaporating, ICE can operate with much more power within 60 miles of a border, so they are all over our community right now.

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Dave Tucker (geologist) (Wikipedia) David Samuel Tucker is a geologist, author, and union organizer in Washington state. He is a research associate at Western Washington University. He was an instructor at North Cascades Institute, and the director of the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center (now closed). He writes the blog Northwest Geology Field Trips, a blog aimed at laypeople detailing where to find interesting geology in the Pacific Northwest. In 2015, he published a popular book on Washington geology, Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. He resides in Bellingham, Washington. In the 1980s he worked as a mountaineering guide in the Cascades, Mexico, and South America.
The North Fork Nooksack River rises at the Nooksack Cirque east of Mount Shuksan within the western part of North Cascades National Park in central Whatcom County.
The Mount Baker Highway was constructed by Whatcom County in 1893 as a wagon road traveling northeast from Bellingham along the Nooksack River through Deming and Kendall to Maple Falls.

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county

trails

unincorporated community

Washington Trails Association

Gorge Lake Overlook (wta.org) This very short trail provides astonishing views of nature’s beauty as well as humanity’s technological “improvements” upon it. The first section of this loop is paved, allowing an out-and-back for all family members, while the remaining graveled loop section is never steep nor too challenging.
Ladder Creek Falls (wta.org) Located behind the Gorge Powerhouse in Newhalem, Ladder Creek Falls offers a refreshing woodland retreat with exotic flora and close-up views of the third tier of this spectacular waterfall. When the hydroelectric project near Ross Lake was under construction during the 1930s and ’40s, owner and developer J.D. Ross built a trail to nearby Ladder Creek Falls to showcase the area.

waterfalls

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156623

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Whatcom_County,_Washington

Wikipedia

Whatcom County, Washington (Wikipedia) Whatcom County (/ˈwɒtkəm/, /ˈhwɒtkəm/) is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts) of British Columbia to the north, Okanogan County to the east, Skagit County to the south, San Juan County across Rosario Strait to the southwest, and the Strait of Georgia to the west. Its county seat and largest population center is the coastal city of Bellingham, comprising the Bellingham, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and as of the 2020 census, the county’s population was 226,847.

wilderness area