Biohazard Cleanup Near South Sultan Sultan, WA

Sultan is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, about 23 miles east of Everett, where the Sultan River flows into the Skykomish River.

The city was founded in 1880 at the site of a Skykomish village, during a small local gold rush.

Both the river and the town were named by prospectors for a chief of a Snohomish sub-tribe who lived along the Skykomish River in the 1870s.

Sultan was platted in 1889, just before the Great Northern Railway arrived, and it became a hub for the area's mining and lumber industries.

The city was incorporated on June 28, 1905, when its population was about 700.

Sultan remained a small logging and farming town for most of the 20th century, with 4,651 residents at the 2010 census and 5,146 at the 2020 census.

Since 2020 Sultan has been one of Washington's faster-growing small cities: Census Bureau estimates published in QuickFacts put its population near 7,230 by 2025, a gain of roughly 40 percent over the 2020 census base.

Census Bureau QuickFacts reports about 2,144 households in Sultan for 2020-2024, an American Community Survey estimate rather than a decennial count.

According to the Census Bureau, the city covers about 3.27 square miles at the western edge of the Cascade foothills.