Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Ferndale, WA

Ferndale is a city in Whatcom County on the Nooksack River and the second-largest city in the county, within the Bellingham metropolitan area and near the Lummi Nation.

The Ferndale area was historically the site of a Lummi settlement on a prairie along the river, and Billy Clark, a Texan who arrived during the Gold Rush era, was the first European full-time resident.

First settled in 1872, the town was originally called "Jam" because of a log jam on the Nooksack River, then renamed Ferndale for the ferns that grew around the original schoolhouse; it was officially incorporated on March 19, 1907.

The 2020 census counted 15,048 residents in Ferndale living in 5,385 households, a 31.8 percent increase over 2010.

Pioneer Park in Ferndale preserves one of the largest collections of authentic pioneer log cabins in the Pacific Northwest, a dozen original cedar-slab cabins from the 1800s that are listed on the Washington State Heritage Register.

Hovander Homestead Park, a Whatcom County park preserving an early-1900s farmhouse and barn, and the Tennant Lake area border Ferndale along its southeast boundary.

Ferndale High School, on Golden Eagle Drive, is the city's only high school, and its teams compete as the Golden Eagles in gold and blue.

Ferndale's economy began with timber and then dairy agriculture, and the construction of the Ferndale Refinery west of town in the 1950s and the Cherry Point Refinery to the northwest in the 1970s brought an industrial boom.

Brooks Sports operates a shoe manufacturing plant in Ferndale capable of producing about 500,000 pairs of shoes annually.

Interstate 5 is Ferndale's main highway, and Amtrak Cascades passenger trains pass through the city on the BNSF Railway line along the Nooksack River.