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Conway is a tiny unincorporated census-designated place in Skagit County, on the east shore of the South Fork of the Skagit River, and is part of the Mount Vernon-Anacortes metropolitan area.

Conway was first settled in 1873 by Thomas P. Jones and Charles Villeneuve.

Jones, who was born in Conwy, Wales, platted the town in 1891 and named it Conway after his Welsh hometown.

The village sits at the bridge to Fir Island, in the Skagit River delta — a bridge has linked the island to the mainland at Conway since 1914, replacing the ferry at Mann's Landing — and the island's farmland across the river is famous for the snow geese and trumpeter swans that winter there and draw visitors through Conway.

The 2020 census counted just 87 people in Conway, little changed from 91 in 2010; the 2010 census recorded 29 households.

Conway first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2000 census, when it had 84 residents.

The whole CDP covers only about 0.27 square miles at an elevation of roughly 7 feet, on the flat, flood-prone floor of the Skagit River delta.

About one in five Conway residents (20.7 percent) was Hispanic or Latino at the 2020 census.

Conway has its own school district: children attend Conway Elementary School from kindergarten through eighth grade, but the district has no high school, so older students attend schools in surrounding communities such as Mount Vernon.