Lynnwood is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The city is share of the Seattle metropolitan Place and is located 16 miles (26 km) north of Seattle and 13 miles (21 km) south of Everett, near the junction of Interstate 5 and Interstate 405. It is the fourth-largest city in Snohomish County, with a population of 35,836 in the 2010 U.S. census.

Lynnwood is a suburban bedroom community for Seattle, Everett and Bellevue. It has one of the largest concentrations of retailers in the region, anchored by the Alderwood Mall and businesses along major streets. The city afterward has a community college, a convention center, and a major transit center, located in the developing city center.

The Lynnwood Place was logged and granted by homesteaders in the late 19th century and yet to be 20th century, including the fee of Alderwood Manor as a planned crop growing community. Lynnwood, named for the wife of a realtor, emerged in the late 1940s in this area the intersection of Highway 99 and 196th Street Southwest. The city was incorporated on April 23, 1959, and grew into a suburban hub in the years gone the carrying out of Interstate 5 and Interstate 405. Alderwood Mall opened in 1979 and spurred the transformation of eastern Lynnwood into a retail and office district.

Prior to open with American settlers, the Snohomish tribe of Native Americans used the area of modern-day Lynnwood for summertime activities, including hunting, fishing, berry gathering, and root cultivation. The Snohomish were relocated to the Tulalip reservation, near modern-day Marysville, after the signing of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, opening the Place for American settlement.

Brown’s Bay, part of Puget Sound, and modern-day Meadowdale were surveyed by American loggers in 1859. Logging upon Brown’s Bay began in 1860, and the first American settlers arrived in the 1880s. Scottish-born stonemason Duncan Hunter became the area’s first white resident in 1889, filing an 80-acre (32 ha) land allegation on modern-day 36th Avenue Southwest after upsetting west from Wisconsin. The allegation was familial by Hunter’s son Basil, who lived on the property until his death in 1982; it was complex turned into the city’s Pioneer Park in the late 1980s. Hunter was allied to the east by a allegation from William Morrice, a fellow stonemason from Aberdeen, Scotland. Settlers from Pennsylvania homesteaded along Cedar Valley, to the south of Hunter and Morrice, and close Scriber Lake (named for Peter Schreiber) in 1888, leading to the inauguration of the area’s first schoolhouse in 1895.