Edmonds is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located in the southwest corner of the county, facing Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains to the west. The city is ration of the Seattle metropolitan area and is located 15 miles (24 km) north of Seattle and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Everett. With a population of 39,709 residents in the 2010 U.S. census, Edmonds is the third most populous city in the county. The estimated population in 2019 was 42,605.

Edmonds was conventional in 1876 by logger George Brackett, who bought the land affirmation of an earlier settler. It was incorporated as a city in 1890, shortly before the arrival of the Great Northern Railway. Early residents of the city were employed by the shingle mills and logging companies that operated in the Place until the 1950s. The hills surrounding Edmonds were developed into suburban bedroom communities in the mid-to-late 20th century and later than annexed into the city. Edmonds is a regional hub for the arts, with museums, specialized facilities, and major annual festivals within the city’s downtown area.

The city is similar to user-friendly areas by two declare highways and the declare ferry system, which operates a ferry route to Kingston upon the Kitsap Peninsula. Public transit support in Edmonds is centered in the region of the downtown train station, served by Amtrak and Sounder commuter trains, and includes several Community Transit bus routes that travel through outlying neighborhoods.

Prior to the 19th century, the Edmonds Place was inhabited by the Suquamish tribe, who foraged and fished close the flat seashore forming modern-day downtown. No archaeological evidence of a enduring settlement in Edmonds has been found, despite claims that a fishing village had existed close the modern-day downtown.

An exploratory expedition of Puget Sound led by Charles Wilkes charted the Edmonds Place in 1841, naming “Point Edmund” (now Point Edwards) to the southwest of the modern-day downtown. A 147-acre (59 ha) land affirmation for the Place was filed by Pleasant Ewell in 1866 and was sold to various landowners back being eventually purchased by Canadian-born logger George Brackett in 1872 for $650. Brackett had allegedly found the well along site of Edmonds in 1870 while searching for potential logging areas upon his canoe, which was blown ashore during a storm. Brackett and his family moved from Ballard to Point Edmund in 1876, intent on creating a town. He drained a marshland near the port and began logging the area, then known as “Brackett’s Landing”. Additional settlers arrived greater than the next few years, necessitating the construction of a haven and general heap by 1881. In 1884, the treaty was platted and gained its first declare office, christened subsequently the name “Edmonds”, either a misspelling of Point Edmund or the reveal of George Franklin Edmunds, a U.S. Senator from Vermont who Brackett admired.