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Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Skagit County, Washington, standing on the banks of the Skagit River — it shares its name with George Washington's Virginia estate but is a separate Pacific Northwest city.

Jasper Gates and Joseph Dwelley first settled the site in 1870, and Harrison Clothier and E. G. English, who arrived in 1877, are recognized as the city's founders; a post office opened in November 1877 with Clothier as postmaster.

Mount Vernon was chosen as the seat of the new Skagit County in November 1884, taking the designation from La Conner, and voters approved incorporation in 1890, with the papers filed with the Secretary of State on July 5 of that year.

Logging was the city's first industry, though a massive ancient log jam in the Skagit River long blocked large ships from reaching it; the Great Northern Railway completed its line through Mount Vernon in 1891.

The 2020 census counted 35,219 residents in Mount Vernon, the most populous city in Skagit County, living in 12,896 households.

Hispanic or Latino residents made up 33.7 percent of Mount Vernon's population in the 2020 census.

Mount Vernon hosts the Tulip Festival Street Fair downtown as part of the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, celebrating the millions of tulips grown in the valley — Skagit County produces roughly 75 percent of the United States' commercial tulip output.

In 1998 the New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities rated Mount Vernon the number one 'Best City in America.'

The Historic Lincoln Theatre on First Street, built in 1926, is one of only 98 theaters in the United States still possessing its original Wurlitzer theatre organ.

After a long history of Skagit River flooding fought with volunteer-built sandbag walls, the city bought the first Norwegian AquaFence mobile flood wall sold in the United States in 2007, and a permanent floodwall completed in 2019 made way for Skagit Riverwalk Park.