Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Yarrow Point, WA

Yarrow Point is a small incorporated town in King County, Washington, occupying a peninsula on the eastern shore of Lake Washington that is bordered on three sides by the lake.

Before settlers arrived, the Duwamish people maintained two longhouses along Yarrow Bay, though most of the tribe lived around present-day Renton and Seattle.

Yarrow Point was named by Leigh S. J. Hunt, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who lived on the point from 1886 to 1895 and named his estate 'Yarrow' after William Wordsworth's poems about the Yarrow Water in Scotland.

The point was first homesteaded in the late 1880s, and berry, vegetable and holly farms dominated the community until the mid-20th century.

Yarrow Point was officially incorporated on June 15, 1959, to preserve its unique character in the face of rapid growth around Puget Sound.

The town is tiny — about 0.36 square miles (roughly 231 acres) with about 405 homes and just 4.32 miles of streets, according to the town government.

The 2020 census counted 1,134 people in Yarrow Point.

At the 2010 census, Yarrow Point had 1,001 residents living in 374 households, with a population density among the highest of Washington's small towns because of its compact peninsula footprint.

Yarrow Point is one of the small 'Points' communities on Lake Washington's Eastside, sitting between Hunts Point and the communities of Bellevue and Kirkland.