Talk:Skykomish, Washington

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Name[edit]

Doesn't the name derive from an indian tribe? --Hans-Jürgen Hübner (talk) 11:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like you're right about that (see [[here]]). I'll work it into the article here pretty soon, unless someone else beats me to it. W.stanovsky (talk) 06:24, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. W.stanovsky (talk) 08:14, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Population in the 1920s[edit]

Currently, the article says that there were approx. "several thousand" inhabitants in the 1920s. However, below there is a table "Historical population" which shows a population of 238 in 1910, 267 in 1920 and 562 in 1930. These numbers originate from the U.S. Decennial Census. "Several thousand" inhabitants appear to be somewhat exaggerated. This number doesn't match the Census one and totally steps out of line. --BRFBlake (talk) 04:31, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ BRFBlake: Actually, it was indeed that high — go read the source cited … In short, the population BRIEFLY increased in between 1920 and 1930 (in-between those two census readings). See source page section titled: Prosperity and Decline Special:Contributions/(redacted_due_to_ipv6_UUID_leak_for_this_device) 06:11, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation?[edit]

Hey, Given 1. the variety of things called

Skykomish

(try searching wikipedia for it), plus 2. the original name from a NativeAmerican tribe... (see below topic on this Talk_Page)

Maybe: we ought to point the page-name of "Skykomish" (by itself) to a DisambiguationPage ?

I've never made one before,

so maybe someone else could create it?

another Q: Can a bot auto-create a page, based on search results for the term? SilentAshes (talk) 12:09, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Skykomish is currently a redirect to here. If you can show more things are called "Skykomish" you are right, they should be disambiguated on a page (probably Skykomish (disambiguation)). However, note that the two current things hatnoted from here are not called merely "Skykomish". Skykomish River and Skykomish people have different article titles than the title of this article (for starters they lack the comma Washington part of this page's title), so the current solution suffices for those articles. CapnZapp (talk) 10:57, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Climate data is outdated.[edit]

The climte data referenced stopped collection in 1955. Maybe good to find an alternate. 72.35.151.78 (talk) 16:31, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. There is later data at the site, but what's referenced does end in 1955. I have added this year to the table, but probably that old data is obsolete today. CapnZapp (talk) 20:38, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Snohomish - King border[edit]

This border appears to harken back to the original border between King and Island counties when Thurston County was split up in December 1852 (King) and January 1853 (Island), but on closer inspection this appears to not be the case.

Look at the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. You'll note that when Snohomish County was created Jan 14 1861 it was created out of Island County and King County, moving the previous Island/King border south to form the current Snohomish/King border. AFAIK, the border used to parallel the easternmost part of the Clallam/Jefferson border.

The recently added source talks about "drop[ping] the border five miles." It seems something like that has already happened.

CapnZapp (talk) 15:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CapnZapp: Interesting find. I looked through some territorial legislature records and it seems to show that King County's northern boundary was originally set at Pilot Cove, which roughly lines up with the Newberry map. Sounder Bruce 19:15, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]