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Puget Sound region information


Puget Sound region
CountryUnited States
StateWashington
Core citiesSeattle
Tacoma
Bellevue
Everett
Highest elevation

Mount Rainier
14,411 ft (4,392 m)
Lowest elevation

Sea level
0 ft (0 m)
Time zoneUTC−08:00 (Pacific)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−07:00 (PDT)
Area codes206, 253, 360, 425, 564
Puget Sound, its basins, and major surrounding cities

The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by prehistoric glaciers.

Poet Robert Sund called the Puget Sound region "Ish River country", owing to its numerous rivers with names ending in "ish", such as the Duwamish, Samish, Sammamish, Skokomish, Skykomish, Snohomish, and the Stillaguamish.[1] The ish ending is from Salishan languages and means "people of".[2]

  1. ^ Ingle, Schuyler (November 24, 1991). "The Time of Food: Pacific Northwest Bounty". Los Angeles Times.
  2. ^ Denham, Kristen E.; Lobeck, Anne C. (2011). "Chapter 5". Linguistics for Everyone. Cengage. p. 145. ISBN 9781111344382.

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Puget Sound region

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The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and...

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Puget Sound

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Puget Sound (/ˈpjuːdʒɪt/ PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] HWULCH) is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It...

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Puget Sound Energy

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Washington that provides electrical power and natural gas to the Puget Sound region. The utility serves electricity to more than 1.1 million customers...

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Electricity in the Puget Sound region

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the Puget Sound region is a significant factor in people's lives, an enabler for the modern economy, and has a unique relationship with the region's environment...

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1965 Puget Sound earthquake

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The 1965 Puget Sound earthquake occurred at 08:28 AM PDT (15:28 UTC) on April 29 within the Puget Sound region of Washington state. It had a magnitude...

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Puget Sound faults

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The Puget Sound faults under the heavily populated Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland) of Washington state form a regional complex of interrelated seismogenic...

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, officially Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF), is a United States Navy shipyard...

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Puget Sound AVA

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Puget Sound is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) in western Washington State. It is the only AVA in the state of Washington that is located west of...

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Puget Sound mosquito fleet

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The Puget Sound mosquito fleet was a multitude of private transportation companies running smaller passenger and freight boats on Puget Sound and nearby...

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South Puget Sound

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South Puget Sound is the southern reaches of Puget Sound in Southwest Washington, in the United States' Pacific Northwest. It is one of five major basins...

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Puget Sound salmon recovery

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anadromous forms of Pacific trout (Oncorhynchus) within the Puget Sound region. The Puget Sound lies within the native range of the Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus)...

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2001 Nisqually earthquake

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the most recent of several large earthquakes that occurred in the Puget Sound region over a 52-year period and caused property damage valued at $1–4 billion...

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Glacial erratic boulders of the Puget Sound region

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called glacial erratics) can be found in the Puget Sound region as far south as the Yelm area where the Puget Lobe of the glacier reached its maximum extent...

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Puget Sound Refinery

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The Puget Sound Refinery is an oil refinery on March Point near Anacortes, Washington, United States. It is operated by HF Sinclair and is one of the...

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Puget Systems

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was named for the Puget Sound region in which it is located, but the name caused confusion about their services and was changed to Puget Custom Computers...

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Puyallup people

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Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people indigenous to the Puget Sound region of Washington state. They are primarily enrolled in and represented...

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Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club

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The Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club (PSJBGC) is a Puget Sound Area gun club, formerly affiliated with Redneck Revolt. During the George Floyd protests...

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Puget Sound Regional Council

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address regional issues. The Puget Sound Regional Council serves the central Puget Sound region of Washington state. The region is made up of King County...

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Vashon Glaciation

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Canada–United States border into the Puget Sound region. By following the Fraser Valley, the ice reached the Puget Sound Region using the same pathway that cold...

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BECU

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current President and CEO. BECU has over 52 locations throughout the Puget Sound region, three locations in Spokane, and two branches in North Charleston...

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Seattle metropolitan area

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Washington's total population. The area is considered part of the greater Puget Sound region, which largely overlaps with the Seattle Combined Statistical Area...

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ORCA card

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the Puget Sound region of Washington, United States. The card is valid on most transit systems in the Seattle metropolitan area, including Sound Transit...

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Dungeness Crab in Puget Sound

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The Dungeness crab in the Puget Sound, Washington state is a non-genetically distinct population of Dungeness that has been experiencing severely declining...

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The Daffodil Festival

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The Daffodil Festival is a regional festival and royalty leadership program. The Grand Floral Parade is held in Pierce County, Washington every April....

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Lushootseed

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Lushootseed, formerly known as Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family...

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Sound Transit Express

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cities in three counties (King, Pierce, and Snohomish) in the Puget Sound region. Sound Transit Express ranks first in the nation in the number of commuter...

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Transportation in Seattle

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King County, and Sound Transit, which operates commuter rail, light rail, and regional express buses within the greater Puget Sound region. In recent years...

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1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic

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the Northwest Plateau, killing a large portion of natives from the Puget Sound region to Southeast Alaska. Two-thirds of British Columbia natives died—around...

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