Maple Valley is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 22,684 at the 2010 census, and is estimated to be 27,202 as of 2019. The city functions as a commuter town for residents, though there is an increasing amount of public notice activity in the area.

The area was contracted in 1879 by three men who were improving a trail and brought their families in. When a publish for a complex community was proposed, the names Vine Maple Valley and Maple Ridge were suggested. A vote was taken by writing the names upon slips of paper and placing them in a hat. Vine Maple Valley won by 2/3, but the word “Vine” was later cut by the declare office because it made the broadcast too long.

The town’s to the front history mainly had to accomplish with coal, lumber milling to construct homes, and a railroad that ran through town. Coal was brought in from Black Diamond to the south, but the town itself plus mined coal from Cedar Mountain. The mine was used as late as 1947.
Rail workers for lines subsequently the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Cedar River Watershed, closed off by the City of Seattle, meant more workers for those things. More residents expected more lumber milling. More lumber milling intended more workers. Suquamish tribe chairperson Martha George was born near Maple Valley in Sheridan in 1892, at a logging camp where her mommy and grandmother worked as cooks.”

The town grew inward. Blacksmith shops, hotels, saloons and stores took taking place the town in the 1910s and 1920s. Schools went up as well. Early schools were shacks at best. A two-room bookish went happening in 1910, and a larger high school was built in 1929 as the first moot in the Tahoma School District. The school, after extensive renovations, still stands today as an elementary school. Much of this early move forward actually did not take place in the modern-day city, but rather in Hobart, northeast of incorporated Maple Valley.

More residents meant gardening and fishing became staples in the area, with milk, poultry and berry gardening becoming the main grown food staples in the area. Fishing out of the Cedar River plus became popular. Maple Valley also wise saying resorts beginning in the 1920s. Lake Wilderness, once the site of a county lumber mill, quickly became a resort lake behind the launch of Gaffney’s Grove, which opened later a ballroom, restaurant and roller rink. Later, the resort grew to affix an airstrip, lodge, rental cabins, a nine-hole golf course and a bowling alley. It remained in operation until 1964.