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55-790: In the northern area of group around Renton, Washington , the Group has been divided into three formations (from oldest to youngest), the Tiger Mountain Formation , the Tukwila Formation , and Renton Formation . Robin Burnham (1994) specifies that these formations have not been defined and extended to Puget Group outcrops to the south within the Green River gorge and all of the Tukwila formation rocks are missing. The Puget Group has been mapped across

110-561: A Superfund site in Renton on the shore of Lake Washington. The proposal was never formally approved by the city government, which had permitted six-story buildings on the site, and was dropped in 2024. Renton is located on the southeast shore of Lake Washington at the mouth of the Cedar River . The city is bordered to the north by Newcastle . Along the east side of Renton is the urban growth boundary established by King County , as such there

165-526: A coal train making the very short haul from Lake Union to Pike Street. Despite its ambitious name, actual construction never went beyond King County , the county of which Seattle itself is the seat. After being sold to Henry Villard 's Oregon Improvement Company in 1880 it was renamed the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad . In 1916, that became the Pacific Coast Railroad Company . When

220-427: A female householder with no husband present, 5.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 39.3% were non-families. 30.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.16. The median age in the city was 35.2 years. 23.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.8% were between

275-659: A good route to access Pacific Coast Steamship Company's new Seattle coal pier at Dearborn Street, where they built a new roundhouse just off of Railroad Avenue (later Alaskan Way). In 1909, following up on a 1906 agreement, the Milwaukee Road was extended similar trackage rights from the south to what had been granted to the Puget Sound Shore Railroad. By 1913, the C&;PSRR was operating 11 locomotives, 8 passenger cars, 152 freight cars, and 236 coal cars. The C&PSRR

330-604: A line owned by the Milwaukee Road , the Chicago, & Puget Sound Railway Company. Beginning July 1, 1884, a third rail on C&PSRR track from Black River Junction north to Argo allowed the Northern Pacific to run their wide-gauge trains on C&PSRR's otherwise narrow-gauge track, and reach Seattle from the south with their Puget Sound Shore Railroad . The Puget Sound Shore Railroad was never really an adequate connection to

385-456: 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 processing were the most important economic industries in the area. The town was prone to flooding from the Cedar River and Black River . In 1916

440-710: A locomotive. The railroad was up and running again by the end of the year. The Panic of 1893 severely impacted the Oregon Improvement Company, which went into receivership in 1895, emerging in 1897 as the Pacific Coast Company, a name the reflected its inclusion of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company . C&PSRR upgraded to standard gauge , work that was completed in November 1897. The 1903 agreement with Northern Pacific gave C&PSRR

495-472: A newly created auto sales zone close to the I-405/SR-167 interchange. In place of the old dealerships downtown, a new transit center and parking garage were built in partnership with King County Metro . The transit center is surrounded by several multi-family residential buildings and a small town square named Piazza Park, which hosts a weekly farmers' market . Centered on former Boeing Co. property near

550-499: A precipitation regime typical of the Pacific Northwest . Being located in a partial rain shadow and shielded from the coastal summers, Renton has more of a climate influenced by the interior than many other areas nearby. As of the 2023 American Community Survey , there are 40,968 estimated households in Renton with an average of 2.53 persons per household. The city has a median household income of $ 100,237. Approximately 7.9% of

605-544: A public airport at the foot of Lake Washington. It is used by the Boeing Renton Factory as well as for charter services and flight training. Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad The Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad (earlier Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company ) was a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge railroad and was the first proper railroad to serve Seattle , Washington , preceded only by horse-drawn rail vehicles and by

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660-400: A total of six western Washington geographic quadrangles . The total deposition time has been estimated to be as short as approximately 7.7 million years, from around 45 to 36 million years ago based on isotopic data reported in 1993 or as long as 51 to 34 million years ago based on the paleofloristic data of Wolfe (1968, 1977) The Western North American floras of

715-586: Is best known as the final assembly point for the Boeing 737 family of commercial airplanes, but it is also home to a growing number of well-known manufacturing, technology, and healthcare organizations, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes Division , Paccar , Kaiser Permanente , Providence Health & Services , UW Medicine , and Wizards of the Coast . Long a cultural center for the Duwamish, European settlers arrived in

770-456: Is no incorporated city directly east of Renton. The southern border is shared with Kent , while the western border consists of the city of Tukwila and the unincorporated community of West Hill . The geographical characteristics of Renton's eastern border are varied and include (from north to south) the south flank of Cougar Mountain descending southward merging with the community of May Valley. The terrain then elevates south of May Valley to

825-554: The B-29 Superfortress ; currently, it produces the 737 airliner. The Renton plant produced the Jetfoil and Pegasus class hydrofoils in the 1970s. As of 2001, 40% of all commercial aircraft in the air were assembled in Renton. Boeing remains the largest employer in Renton, which is home to over 10,000 employees and three of the aerospace giant's six major business divisions: Boeing Commercial Airplanes , Boeing Capital Corporation and

880-660: The Columbia River . J. M. Colman, owner of the Seattle lumber mill founded by Henry Yesler, emerged as the leader of the enterprise. He staked US$ 20,000 of his own money—a fortune in those days, especially during the slow recovery from the Panic of 1873 —on the condition that other Seattle businessmen would loan the enterprise at least twice that sum. Colman brought in labor contractor Chin Gee Hee , who organized cheap Chinese labor to continue

935-588: The East Renton Plateau on the eastern edge of Renton, and West Hill northwest of Renton. These communities are large unincorporated urban areas that are encouraged by the King County Annexation Initiative to incorporate as cities or annex into neighboring cities. As of 2012 these three PAAs are not part of the City of Renton, and not included in its demographics or statistics. Renton is one of

990-639: The Issaquah School District serves a small portion of unincorporated Renton neighborhoods. The Tahoma School District serves a small portion of Renton along Maple Valley Highway . The Kent School District serves the majority of Fairwood , a census-designated place between Renton and Maple Valley . The Renton School District includes the four high schools: Hazen High School , Lindbergh High School , Renton High School , and Albert Talley Senior High School . The school district also has four middle schools and fifteen elementary schools. Parts of

1045-492: The Northern Pacific Railway chose nearby Tacoma as its western terminus (1873), many thought that this would condemn Seattle to, at best, a secondary role on Puget Sound . While most of the other towns that were passed over in favor of Tacoma simply accepted their fate, Seattle did not. Selucius Garfielde proposed a railway east through Snoqualmie Pass to the grainfields of Eastern Washington . The railroad

1100-571: The Pacific Northwest opened in Renton in 1994 at a former Boeing building; the original building was replaced by a new store on the same site in 2017. The former Longacres horse-racing track was redeveloped in the 1990s to support offices for Boeing and the Federal Reserve Bank , which moved from its Seattle building. Port Quendall, a land parcel in north Renton, is home to the Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC), housing

1155-504: The Paleogene period is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Renton, Washington Renton is a city in King County , Washington , United States, and an inner-ring 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 . As of the 2020 census ,

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1210-815: The Seattle Seahawks Headquarters and training facility that opened in August 2008; before then, the Seahawks trained in Kirkland . In the mid-1990s, Renton undertook a major redevelopment effort to revitalize its downtown core, which had declined in commercial prominence since the opening of the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila in 1968. The many car dealerships that had previously occupied the center of downtown Renton were encouraged through economic incentives to relocate to

1265-607: The 1970s recession. In the early 1980s the Paccar Railcar Division; the last remnants of the original Pacific Car and Foundry Co closed down. In 1993, a new Kenworth assembly plant opened on the former site of Pacific Car and Foundry. As of 2022 the top employers in the city are: Renton Technical College , originally opened in 1942 as a war production school, offers associate degrees and certificates of completion in professional-technical fields. The Renton School District provides K–12 public schooling. Additionally,

1320-473: The C&PSRR continued to lay track in the coal-rich terrain of Western Washington, mainly extending lines south and east from Renton via Black Diamond to Franklin (December 1884), but also extending service a short distance from Newcastle to nearby Coal Creek in December 1881. Additional short lines out of Black Diamond would eventually go to Denny (renamed Bruce in 1897) and 1.65 miles (2.66 km) to Kummer;

1375-666: The Eocene were divided into four floral "stages" by Jack Wolfe ( 1968 ) based on work with the Puget Group plant fossils. The four stages, Franklinian , Fultonian , Ravenian , and Kummerian covered the Early Eocene through early Oligocene, and three of the four were given informal early/late substages. Wolfe tentatively deemed the Franklinian as Early Eocene, the Fultonian as Middle Eocene,

1430-632: The Ravenian as Late, and the Kummerian as Early Oligocene. The beginning of the Kummerian was refined by Gregory Retallack et al (2004) as 40 mya, with a refined end at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary where the younger Angoonian floral stage starts. This article about a specific stratigraphic formation in Washington is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to

1485-481: The Seattle Coal and Transportation Co., and renamed it the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad . The sale was quite profitable for the line's owners, but still did little to connect Seattle to the national land transportation grid. The Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Company (C&PSRR), successor to the Seattle and Walla Walla, was incorporated November 26, 1880, the day after the purchase. Like its predecessor,

1540-681: The Shared Services Group. The local newspaper in the 1970s, the Record-Chronicle, proclaimed the city the jet capital of the world. Paccar has traditionally been a large employer in the city as well with its Kenworth Truck plant located in Renton's industrial area on the south end of Lake Washington . In 1907 the Seattle Car Mfg Company also known as the Car Company moved to a large manufacturing plant in Renton after demand for

1595-415: The ages of 18 and 24; 33.5% were from 25 to 44; 24.4% were from 45 to 64; and 10.1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. Boeing Commercial Airplanes , Boeing Capital , Providence Health & Services , and Wizards of the Coast have their headquarters in Renton. The Boeing Renton Factory has operated since World War II, when it manufactured

1650-562: The area of present-day Renton in the 1870s. First among them 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 like Erasmus M. Smithers , who is credited with the founding and establishment of the town in 1875. Smithers named Renton in honor of Captain William Renton,

1705-621: The cities in the Puget Sound region with an independent street grid system. Roads names beginning with sectional divisions (N 32nd Street) generally follow a latitudinal direction, while roads names ending in a sectional direction (Duvall Ave NE) generally follow a longitudinal direction. Many of the avenues in the city are named in honor of other cities in Washington . Renton has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen : Csb ) with warm and dry summers mixed with cloudy, wet and cool winters, with

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1760-544: The city are also served by the Issaquah School District , Kent School District , and the Tahoma School District , all of which predominantly serve neighboring cities. Renton has a mayor–council government that oversees municipal services and contracts with other entities for utilities. The mayor and seven councilmembers are elected to four-year terms in staggered, at-large elections. Councilmembers are divided into working committees that recommend legislation to

1815-588: The city was 37.8 years. As of the 2020 census , there were 106,785 people, 41,433 households, and 25,537 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,549.1 inhabitants per square mile (1,756.4/km ). There were 43,362 housing units at an average density of 1,847.2 inhabitants per square mile (713.2/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 41.86% White , 10.15% African American , 0.92% Native American , 26.14% Asian , 0.79% Pacific Islander , 8.49% from some other races and 11.64% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 15.46% of

1870-409: The city was 54.64% White , 10.63% African American , 0.66% Native American , 21.22% Asian , 0.75% Pacific Islander , 6.24% from some other races and 5.85% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 13.14% of the population. There were 36,009 households, of which 32.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.2% were married couples living together, 11.9% had

1925-493: The city's population lives at or below the poverty line . Renton has an estimated 71.7% employment rate, with 38.4% of the population holding a bachelor's degree or higher and 86.2% holding a high school diploma. The top five reported ancestries (people were allowed to report up to two ancestries, thus the figures will generally add to more than 100%) were English (59.2%), Spanish (12.8%), Indo-European (7.0%), Asian and Pacific Islander (16.4%), and Other (4.6%). The median age in

1980-572: The communities of the East Renton Plateau before descending to the north bank of the Cedar River. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 25.27 square miles (65.45 km ), of which 23.54 square miles (60.97 km ) is land and 1.73 square miles (4.48 km ) is water, most of which is the Cedar River . Potential Annexation Areas (PAAs) include the communities of Fairwood southeast of Renton,

2035-609: The company's railroad equipment exceeded the capacity of its Seattle plant. The Car Company was the only manufacturer of train cars on the west coast . The Renton plant expanded to foundry capabilities in 1911, and Seattle Car and Foundry Co merged with the Twohy Brothers of Portland in 1917 and became the Pacific Car and Foundry Company or Paccar. During the great depression, the Renton Paccar plant developed power winches for use in

2090-609: The completion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal lowered the surface of Lake Washington by several feet which consequently 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 instead of into the Black River. As a result, the Black River largely disappeared, leaving only a few remnants. The culmination of these actions reduced

2145-489: The confluence of three major freeways ( I-5 , I-405 , and SR 167 ), Renton's economic development team has lured a number of specialty retailers that draw consumers from around the region, including IKEA . Some retail establishments were unwanted though, and the city successfully defended zoning restrictions on pornographic theaters before the U.S. Supreme Court in Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. The Renton Public Library

2200-586: The construction. (Chin would eventually become a railway entrepreneur in his native China.) Despite Walla Walla's lack of interest, construction began on May 1, 1874, at Steele's Landing in Georgetown , the present-day intersection of E. Marginal Way S. and S. Lucille St., which was then near the mouth of the Duwamish River , later re-channeled and straightened. Twelve miles of track had been completed by October of that year, entirely through volunteer labor by

2255-476: The latter opened no later than June 30, 1903); about halfway between Renton and Black Diamond, a line was extended from Maple Valley to Taylor (a company town owned by the Denny Clay Company ) around May 1893. The C&SPRR eventually had 60.26 miles (96.98 km) of track. The C&PSRR gave Seattle at least a tenuous link to major railways to its south and east. At Maple Valley, it connected to

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2310-483: The logging industry. When World War II arrived the Renton manufacturing switched its production towards the war effort, and by the war's end in 1945 had built 1,500 Sherman Tanks . In the second half of the 20th century there was not enough repeat business for Paccar-built train cars as rail equipment in 1965 came to only 1/3 of the company's sales. Thus the Paccar Renton plant began manufacturing structural steel until

2365-472: The men of Seattle. The line reached the coal fields of Renton in 1877, with the first train running on March 7 and regular commercial runs commencing October 15. Coal made the line profitable, even if it did nothing to link Seattle to the national rail infrastructure. The most difficult part of building the line was the trestle ran south from the King Street Coal Wharf, carrying trains through

2420-504: The nation's railroad network. The line was built from the Black River Junction via Kent to Stuck Junction (about halfway between Sumner and Kent ), leading in theory to the Northern Pacific's main terminal at Tacoma, but the Northern Pacific largely declined to operate the line. The name "Stuck Junction" became all too apt. "[S]ervice was unpredictable and sometimes absent altogether," charges were high, and no break bulk cargo

2475-447: The population of Renton was 106,785, up from 90,927 at the 2010 census . The city is currently the 6th most populous municipality in greater Seattle and the 8th most populous city in Washington . After a long history as an important salmon fishing area for Native Americans, Renton was first settled by people of European descent in the 1860s. Its early economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton

2530-441: The population. 20.6% of residents were under the age of 18, 6.5% were under 5 years of age, and 12.4% were 65 and older. As of the 2010 census , there were 90,927 people, 36,009 households, and 21,849 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,932.8 inhabitants per square mile (1,518.5/km ). There were 38,930 housing units at an average density of 1,683.8 inhabitants per square mile (650.1/km ). The racial makeup of

2585-431: The railroad made it as far as the coal fields of Newcastle , ultimately 22.5 miles (36.2 km) of railway with five locomotives, two passenger cars and sixty freight cars, but never attracted the capitalization that would take it anywhere near the city of Walla Walla from which it took half its name. Henry Villard 's Oregon Improvement Company bought the Seattle and Walla Walla November 25, 1880, combined it with

2640-677: The south shore of Lake Washington is a 68-acre (280,000 m ) residential and commercial development named The Landing. To the north of the Landing, a hotel and office development on the lakefront called Southport has been developed at the site of the former Shuffleton power plant, which was demolished in 2001. A 347-room hotel operated under the Hyatt Regency brand opened in June 2017. In 2017, Bosa Development announced plans to build five residential towers between 16 and 23 stories at Quendall Terminals,

2695-455: The threat of annual flooding. The population sharply increased during World War II when Boeing built their Renton Factory to produce the B-29 Superfortress . Renton grew from a population of 4,488 in 1940 to 16,039 in 1950. The game company Wizards of the Coast also is headquartered in Renton. Providence Health System has centralized its administrative offices in Renton, along with Group Health Cooperative . Owing to its location at

2750-406: The tide flats that would later be filled to form Seattle's Industrial District . Joe Surber sunk numerous piles into the flats, using his pile driver . The resulting trestle was short-lived, though: shipworms attacked the pilings, and this portion of the line had to be replaced by the successor Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad less than five years after it was initially built. On January 18, 1878

2805-610: The whole council in meetings. Renton has two sister cities: Renton is served by King County Metro and Sound Transit Express buses. Metro operates the RapidRide F Line through the city and plans to expand bus rapid transit service in the 2020s; Sound Transit is scheduled to open its own bus rapid transit service, Stride along the Interstate 405 corridor through Renton in 2026. The city government owns and operates Renton Municipal Airport (KRNT), officially Clayton Scott Field,

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2860-575: Was allowed (an individual merchant had to ship and receive by the carload). This situation drove Seattle to look at the possibility of connecting north, leading to the creation of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern . There were various degrees of accommodation at various times, but it would not be until 1902 that a genuinely amicable agreement was reached with Northern Pacific, with details finalized in 1903. The Great Seattle Fire in June 1889 destroyed C&PSRR's Seattle station, shops, roundhouse, coal bunkers, all of its wharves, four freight cars and

2915-474: Was built directly over the Cedar River and opened in 1966. It stretches 80 feet (24 m) across the river, next to Liberty Park, and was the main branch of the city's independent library system until its 2010 annexation into the King County Library system. The city government has encouraged redevelopment of industrial areas around Downtown Renton and near Southcenter since the 1980s. The first IKEA in

2970-486: Was consolidated into the Pacific Coast Railroad Company on March 26, 1916. The Pacific Coast Railroad Company was incorporated November 27, 1897, but did not operate until March 23, 1916. The line from Renton to Newcastle and Coal Creek was closed in 1933. The last of the extensions out of Black Diamond, to Franklin, was closed in 1936. In 1945 the line from Maple Valley to Taylor was closed, and in 1947

3025-474: Was incorporated September 19, 1873. Its founding trustees were Arthur Denny , John Collins, Franklin Mathias, Angus Mackintosh, Henry Yesler , James McNaught, J. J. McGilvra , J. M. Colman , and Dexter Horton . They ventured to Walla Walla , where they were given a warm welcome, but that city lacked Seattle's concern for the project: they already had land transport to Portland, Oregon , not to mention access to

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