Geography
“Seattle, is a city of hills and valleys, ridges and bluffs, creeks and lakes, faults and landslides. It is a city governed by its geology.” David B. Williams |
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Seattle lies on an area of 83.9 square miles 100 miles south of the Canadian border.
The city can be found in the Northwestern part of the country in King County, Washington state. The largest metropolis of the state and the Pacific Northwest. The city lies on a land between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It has the nickname of Emerald city because of the green scenery that surrounds it all year long.
It is bordered by water and mountain ranges, to the West the Olympic and to the east the Cascade mountains. The area’s climate is mild, with mild winter and cool summers.
The city’s outlook transformed through the years when the first settlers arrived. Rerouted a river that changed shorelines, the arrival of rail access required the city to move mountains and reshape monstrous areas to build the future city.
The finishing of the Washington Ship Canal in 1917 caused Lake Washington to lower by 9 feet and the Black River completely disappeared. Industry scale landfill began in the 1890s to dig a canal through Beacon Hill to Lake Washington. Denny Hill became Belltown and the Denny Triangle a vast, flat area.
Consequences of the settler’s execution to prepare the area for the later booming economy and the growing population, both contributed to the complete evanescence of ecosystems and the complete change of the area’s geography.
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