Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in SeaTac, WA

SeaTac is a city in southern King County, Washington, and an inner-ring suburb of Seattle whose name is a portmanteau of Seattle and Tacoma, derived from the nickname of Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.

Residents voted for incorporation on March 14, 1989, and the city of SeaTac officially incorporated on February 28, 1990.

The city's boundaries completely surround Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, which covers about 3 of the city's 10 square miles and is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle.

The airport that defines SeaTac was dedicated on October 31, 1944, and was used by the U.S. Army Air Forces mainly to stage B-29 bombers through the end of World War II.

The 2020 census counted 31,454 people in SeaTac living in 11,093 households.

SeaTac includes the older communities of Angle Lake, Bow Lake, McMicken Heights, and Riverton Heights, all of which were established before the city incorporated.

In 1990 a diver discovered two dugout canoes at the bottom of Angle Lake that were carbon-dated to approximately 1678, and the artifacts were eventually transferred to the Muckleshoot Tribe for stewardship.

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are both headquartered in SeaTac, and the city hosts over 900 licensed businesses employing nearly 40,000 people.

In 2013 SeaTac voters narrowly approved Proposition 1, raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour for airport-related workers, and the Washington Supreme Court upheld applying the law at the airport in 2015.

The Sea-Tac Communities Plan of 1976 was the first program in the United States in which an airport operator bought up homes and school buildings next to the airport as a noise buffer, and 420 acres of vacated land north of the airport became North SeaTac Park.