Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Hunts Point, WA

Hunts Point is a small town in King County, Washington, on the Eastside of the Seattle metropolitan area, occupying a narrow finger of land not quite one mile long and less than a quarter-mile wide that juts into Lake Washington between Evergreen Point and Yarrow Point, with the lake on its north, west, and east shores.

Before European settlement, the point was a camping ground for the Sammamish Indian tribe.

The town is named after Leigh S. J. Hunt (1855–1933), the owner and publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.

Hunts Point incorporated on August 22, 1955, as a fourth-class town, after residents voted for incorporation following a straw ballot earlier that year; Sterling Stapp served as its first mayor.

Fairweather Basin was developed from marshland into residential property as the Fairweather Yacht Basin subdivision in 1957, and the town's first sewers were installed in 1960.

The Evergreen Point Bridge carrying State Route 520 was completed just south of the town in 1963, making Seattle an easy drive from Hunts Point.

The Wetherill Nature Preserve in Hunts Point was created in 1988 from a donated parcel of land.

The town borders Medina to the west and south, Clyde Hill to the south, and Yarrow Point to the east, and its Town Hall stands at 3000 Hunts Point Road, just north of the SR 520 bridge.

Hunts Point had 457 residents at the 2020 census, up from 394 in 2010; its population had peaked at 578 back in 1970.

The 2010 census counted 151 households and 124 families in Hunts Point, and the town describes itself as one of the smallest municipalities in Western Washington, with just over 400 residents.