Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. A suburb east of Seattle, its population was 93,010 in a 2019 census estimate, which made it the sixth largest city in the county and the thirteenth largest in the state.

The city’s downtown dock has restaurants, art galleries, a the theater center, public parks, beaches, and a addition of public art, primarily bronze sculptures.

Kirkland was the original house of the Seattle Seahawks; the NFL team’s headquarters and training skill were located at the Lake Washington Shipyard (now Carillon Point) along Lake Washington for their first ten seasons (1976–85), then at user-friendly Northwest University through 2007. Warehouse chain Costco past had its headquarters in Kirkland. While Costco is now headquartered in Issaquah, the city is the namesake of its “Kirkland Signature” store brand.

The land around Lake Washington to the east of Seattle was first settled by Native Americans. English settlers arrived in the late 1860s, when the McGregor and Popham families built homesteads in what is now the Houghton neighborhood. Four miles (6 km) to the north people with settled near what is now called Juanita Bay, a favored campsite of the Natives because a wild potato, “wapatos”, thrived there. The Curtis associates arrived in the area in the 1870s, followed by the French relations in 1872. The Forbes intimates homesteaded what is now Juanita Beach Park in 1876, and settled upon Rose Hill in 1877. Gradually, additional people decided in the area, and by the subside of the 1880s a little number of logging, farming and boat-building communities were established.

In 1886, Peter Kirk, a British-born enterprising businessman seeking to development the family’s Moss Bay steel production company, moved to Washington after hearing that iron deposits had been discovered in the Cascade Range. Other valuable components such as limestone, needed in steel smelting, were readily available in the area. Further yet, a small number of coal mines (a required fuel source for steel mills) had recently been acknowledged nearby in Newcastle and train lines were already under construction. Plans were as well as underway to build the Lake Washington Ship Canal.