Burton, King County, Washington

Burton
Unincorporated community
Burton Location within the state of Washington
Coordinates: 47°23′21″N 122°27′33″W / 47.38917°N 122.45917°W / 47.38917; -122.45917Coordinates: 47°23′21″N 122°27′33″W / 47.38917°N 122.45917°W / 47.38917; -122.45917
Country	United States
State	Washington
County	King
Time zone	Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)

Burton is an unincorporated community in King County, Washington. It is a historic waterfront residential area on Vashon Island. The town of Burton sits at the isthmus between Inner and Outer Quartermaster Harbor. The town was named in 1892 by Mrs. Miles Hatch after her home town in Illinois,^[1] and in that year development began in Burton with the Vashon College and the Burton Store. Industries around Burton at that time included logging, shingle manufacturing and brickmaking.

Old postcard showing Burton circa 1910. Vashon College is visible on the top right.

Detailed map of Vashon Island, Washington

Municipalities and communities of King County, Washington, United States

County seat: Seattle

Cities	Algona Auburn‡ Bellevue Black Diamond Bothell‡ Burien Carnation Clyde Hill Covington Des Moines Duvall Enumclaw‡ Federal Way Issaquah Kenmore Kent Kirkland Lake Forest Park Maple Valley Medina Mercer Island Milton‡ Newcastle Normandy Park North Bend Pacific‡ Redmond Renton Sammamish SeaTac Seattle Shoreline Snoqualmie Tanner Tukwila Woodinville

Towns	Beaux Arts Village Hunts Point Skykomish Yarrow Point

CDPs	Ames Lake Baring Boulevard Park Bryn Mawr-Skyway Cottage Lake East Renton Highlands Fairwood Fall City Hobart Klahanie Lake Holm Lake Marcel-Stillwater Lake Morton-Berrydale Lakeland North Lakeland South Maple Heights-Lake Desire Mirrormont Ravensdale Riverbend Riverton Shadow Lake Snoqualmie Pass‡ Union Hill-Novelty Hill Vashon White Center Wilderness Rim

Unincorporated communities	Bayne Cumberland Ernie's Grove Grotto Kanaskat Kangley Krain Osceola Palmer Preston Selleck

Indian reservation	Muckleshoot Reservation‡

Ghost towns	Hot Springs Lester Nagrom Sheridan Wellington Weston

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

State of Washington

Olympia (capital)

Topics

Society

Politics

Government	Law Governors Legislature Legislative districts Senate House Legislative initiatives Popular initiatives Congressional delegation Congressional districts City governments

State agencies	Agriculture Archaeology and Historic Preservation Commerce Corrections Early Learning Ecology Employment Security Enterprise Services Financial Institutions Fish and Wildlife Health Higher Education Coordinating Board Information Services Labor and Industries Licensing Military Natural Resources Parks Institute for Public Policy Public Stadium Authority Public Disclosure Commission Retirement Systems Revenue Services for the Blind Social and Health Services Transportation Utilities and Transportation

Regions

Western	Kitsap Peninsula Long Beach Peninsula Olympic Peninsula Puget Sound San Juan Islands Skagit Valley

Eastern/Inland	Central Washington Columbia Plateau Methow Valley Okanogan Country Palouse Yakima Valley

Shared	Cascade Range Columbia Gorge Columbia River

Largest
cities

Seattle Spokane Tacoma Vancouver Bellevue Kent Everett Renton Yakima Federal Way Spokane Valley Kirkland Bellingham Kennewick Auburn Pasco Marysville Lakewood Redmond Shoreline Richland

Metropolitan areas	Greater Seattle Greater Spokane Tri-Cities Wenatchee metropolitan area Greater Portland and Vancouver

Counties

References

↑ Majors, Harry M. (1975). Exploring Washington. Van Winkle Publishing Co. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-918664-00-6.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burton, Washington.

Camp Burton, in Burton, King County, Washington

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, January 25, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.