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Nooksack is a small city in Whatcom County, Washington, about five miles south of the border with Canada.

Nooksack was officially incorporated on December 6, 1912, and grew quickly in its early years around a rail station that connected it to the national train network.

Serious fires in the early twentieth century halted most of Nooksack's early growth.

Despite its name, Nooksack sits beside the upper Sumas River, about 1.2 miles northeast of the nearest bank of the Nooksack River, and State Route 9 runs through the city.

The 2020 census counted 1,471 residents in Nooksack living in 490 households, up from 1,338 residents in 434 households in 2010.

The city covers just 0.87 square miles, all of it land.

In 1992 the U.S. Postal Service moved Nooksack's postmaster to neighboring Everson and the two cities had to share ZIP code 98247, a quirk that cost Nooksack sales tax revenue until it received its own ZIP code, 98276.

A citizens' proposal in 2009 to merge Nooksack and Everson into a single city, possibly named "Nooksack Valley," was dropped after the Nooksack City Council voted unanimously against it.

Public schools in Nooksack are run by the Nooksack Valley School District, shared with Sumas and Everson, whose single high school is Nooksack Valley High School.

Notable Nooksack figures include Darius and Tabitha Kinsey, prominent early twentieth-century photographers, and Native artist and activist Louie Gong.