Woodway

History

The community was founded in 1914 by attorney turned real estate developer David Whitcomb, who acquired and began developing "Woodway Park". The city includes areas north and south of the original Woodway Park which offer one third acre lots and lots in addition to the lots in the park where the original secluded, wooded environment remains. Woodway was officially incorporated on February 26, 1958, in an effort to protect the heavily forested area from development and avoid annexation by Edmonds. Lot sizes were deed restricted to a minimum of (though existing smaller lot sizes were grandfathered) and also mandated nunneries for lots larger than . as a way of grandfathering in the existing convent, Rosary Heights, mother house of the Edmonds Dominican Sisters (originally built as the estate of Boeing vice-president Philip G. Johnson). The city was named for its natural setting by a real estate developer. At that time, Woodway high school students attended the old Edmonds High school until the new Woodway High School was opened in 1970. In 1990, this school merged with Edmonds High School to create Edmonds Woodway High School. Woodway was reclassified as a city in 1986, but continues to refer to itself as the Town of Woodway. Its first homes were completed in 2003. As of 2021, no part of Woodway is zoned for commercial use. Woodway is the only city in Snohomish County to have telephone numbers in the 206 area code, but some areas were switched to area code 425 in 1997. Landline phone numbers in Woodway originally shared LIncoln prefixes (542 and 546) with Richmond Beach, but PRospect prefixes (771, 774, 775, 776) shared with Edmonds were later added.

Geography

Woodway is located at the southwestern edge of Snohomish County, bordered to the north and east by Edmonds and the south by Shoreline in King County. Puget Sound lies to the west of the town, including an unincorporated area known as Point Wells. The town sits on a bluff that overlooks Puget Sound; the BNSF Railway has railroad tracks along the shoreline, which was also home to a clothing-optional beach. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  161,315
• Dark-eyed Junco

  Junco hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  127,116
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  125,933
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  124,099
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  113,356
• Anna's Hummingbird

  Calypte anna (R.Lesson, 1829) · Aves
  103,809
• Spotted Towhee

  Pipilo maculatus Swainson, 1827 · Aves
  98,322
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  86,488

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