Renton is a city in King County, Washington, and a suburb of Seattle. Situated 11 miles (18 km) southeast of downtown Seattle, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River.

After a long archives as an important salmon fishing Place for Native Americans, Renton was first fixed by people of European stock in the 1860s. Its in advance economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton is best known as the truth assembly dwindling for the Boeing 737 associates of advertisement airplanes, but it is also home to a growing number of with ease known manufacturing, technology, and healthcare organizations, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes Division, Paccar, Kaiser Permanente, IKEA, Providence Health & Services, UW Medicine, and Wizards of the Coast. As of 2019, the population of Renton is estimated at 101,751, up from 90,927 at the 2010 census. Renton is currently the eighth-largest city in Washington and the fourth-largest in King County. Since 2008, the National Football League’s Seattle Seahawks have had a training power in Renton, the Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC), which is the second-largest gift in the NFL at 200,000 square feet (19,000 m²).

Among the first European settlers in the present-day Renton area were Henry Tobin and his wife Diana. The town of Renton was accessed via the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad, the first railroad to be built to Seattle, and was in the vicinity of several coal mines that attracted entrepreneurs past Erasmus M. Smithers, who is endorsed with the founding and introduction of the town in 1875. Smithers named Renton in honor of Captain William Renton, a local lumber and shipping merchant who invested heavily in the coal trade. Smithers discovered coal there and brought in Charles D. Shattuck as the coal mine operator.

Renton was incorporated as a city on September 6, 1901, when coal mining and timber giving out were the most important economic industries in the area. The town was prone to flooding from the Cedar River and Black River. In 1916 the triumph of the Lake Washington Ship Canal lowered the surface of Lake Washington by several feet which therefore eliminated drainage of Lake Washington through the Black River (in favor of the Ship Canal). The Cedar River was then diverted to drain into Lake Washington then again of into the Black River. As a result, the Black River largely disappeared, leaving unaccompanied a few remnants. The pinnacle of these actions reduced the threat of annual flooding.

The population unexpectedly increased during World War II with Boeing built their Renton Factory to manufacture the B-29 Superfortress. Renton grew from a population of 4,488 in 1940 to 16,039 in 1950.