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Snoqualmie is a city in King County about 28 miles (45 km) east of Seattle, built in the Snoqualmie Valley beside Snoqualmie Falls, one of Washington's most visited natural landmarks.

The city's name is the Anglicized form of the Lushootseed word sdukʷalbixʷ, 'people of the moon,' for the Snoqualmie Tribe, whose ancestors have lived in the valley for at least 13,000 years.

The U.S. Army built Fort Alden in the valley in 1856, and settler Jeremiah Borst, who arrived in 1858, became known as the 'Father of the Snoqualmie Valley.'

In 1882 the valley's Hop Growers Association began growing hops on what became a 1,500-acre ranch promoted as the 'Largest Hop Ranch in the World.'

Snoqualmie was platted in August 1889 under the name 'Snoqualmie Falls' and incorporated in 1903 — the city dates its incorporation to May 18, 1903 — making it the oldest city in the Snoqualmie Valley.

Entrepreneur Charles Baker built the Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Plant in the late 1890s, carving one of the world's first fully underground powerhouses into the rock at the falls; Puget Sound Energy still operates the plant today.

Snoqualmie Falls plunges 268 feet (82 m) — roughly 100 feet farther than Niagara Falls — draws more than 1.5 million visitors a year, and is a sacred site of the Snoqualmie Tribe; the falls and its park were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

The Salish Lodge & Spa, perched at the rim of the falls in a building first opened in 1919 and rebuilt in 1988, served as the exterior of the Great Northern Hotel in the television series Twin Peaks, and the falls themselves appear in the show's opening credits.

In 1917 an all-electric lumber mill — only the second of its kind in the United States — opened across the river with its own company town of Snoqualmie Falls; the former Weyerhaeuser mill property today hosts, among other uses, the DirtFish rally-driving school.

The city's population was only 1,631 in 2000, but the mid-1990s annexation that created the master-planned Snoqualmie Ridge community — with The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge golf course and, from 2015, Snoqualmie Hospital — drove it to 14,121 residents by the 2020 census.