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Enumclaw is a city in southeastern King County, Washington, nestled against the Cascade foothills amid flat dairy farmland in the east Puget Sound lowlands.

Frank and Mary Stevenson homesteaded the site in 1879; the settlement was first called Stevensonville after them before residents adopted the name Enumclaw.

Enumclaw was platted on October 31, 1885, after the Northern Pacific Railroad routed its transcontinental mainline through the Stevensons' land, and it incorporated as a city on January 27, 1913.

The name Enumclaw comes from a Sahaptin word often translated as 'thundering noise'; Native legend tells of brothers Enumclaw and Kapoonis, who were turned into thunder and lightning by their father.

The flat Enumclaw Plateau the city sits on was formed by the Osceola Mudflow, a volcanic lahar from Mount Rainier about 5,700 years ago.

Enumclaw had 12,543 residents at the 2020 census, living in 5,077 households.

After the area's hops crop failed in the 1890s, residents turned to dairy farming, and Enumclaw still has the most dairy farms in production in the King and Pierce County region.

The Enumclaw Plateau, home to more than 40,000 people, is a major Thoroughbred horse-breeding area.

Enumclaw is the gateway to Mount Rainier National Park and the Crystal Mountain ski area along the Chinook Scenic Byway, State Route 410.

Enumclaw hosts the King County Fair, the oldest county fair west of the Mississippi, as well as the largest dog show in the United States.