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Edmonds is a waterfront city in Snohomish County, Washington, and the oldest incorporated city in the county.

Canadian-born logger George Brackett established the townsite in 1876 after, by local legend, being blown ashore there in a canoe in 1870, and Edmonds incorporated on August 14, 1890.

Local legend also holds that Brackett added the names of his two oxen to the pre-incorporation census to reach the 300 residents required to incorporate.

The name Edmonds derives from Point Edmund, charted by Charles Wilkes in 1841 — either a misspelling of that name or a tribute to U.S. Senator George Franklin Edmunds of Vermont.

The 2020 census counted 42,853 residents in Edmonds, making it the third most populous city in Snohomish County; Census Bureau survey estimates for 2020–2024 put its households at 18,627.

Four shingle mills and logging drove Edmonds' early economy after the Great Northern Railway arrived in 1891, though the last mills had closed by 1951.

Automobile ferry service to Kingston began in 1923, and today's Washington State Ferries terminal stands at Brackett's Landing Park beside the Edmonds station, which is served by Amtrak Cascades, the Empire Builder and Sounder commuter trains.

The Port of Edmonds marina, with 890 slips, is one of the largest marinas in the Puget Sound region.

Just offshore at Brackett's Landing, the 27-acre Edmonds Underwater Park was built for scuba diving with man-made reefs and shipwrecks and draws about 25,000 visitors a year, making it one of Washington's most popular dive sites.

Edmonds Marsh preserves 28 acres of one of Washington's few remaining saltwater marshes, home to some 225 bird species, and the county-run Southwest County Park covers another 120 acres.