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Edison is a small census-designated place (CDP) in Skagit County, Washington — not to be confused with Edison, New Jersey — and together with its neighbor it forms the Bow–Edison area of the Skagit Valley.

The community was first settled in 1869 by Ben Samson and was later named for the famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison.

In 1897, Edison became the headquarters of Equality Colony, a national utopian socialist project backed by the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth, which farmed and milled timber on 280 acres and published the newspaper Industrial Freedom before folding shortly after 1903.

Edison's population held perfectly steady at 133 residents in both the 2000 and 2010 censuses, then jumped about 80 percent to 240 people at the 2020 census.

The CDP covers just 0.58 square miles of land in the Mount Vernon–Anacortes metropolitan area, at an elevation of about 10 feet near the Samish River delta.

Today Edison is known as a day-trip destination for its concentration of artists and galleries, bakeries, and farm-to-table restaurants serving locally sourced Skagit Valley ingredients.

Edison hosts the annual Edison Chicken Parade, held at "high noon" on the last Sunday in February, in which real chickens march alongside locals dressed as chickens and other fowl in a two-block parade lasting about five minutes.

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow graduated from the old Edison High School, which later became Edison Elementary School before a new K-8 Edison Elementary was built on the same site in 1996.

The community is served by the Burlington-Edison School District.