San Juan County Cities

  

• Cities are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right •

NOTE: City Naming History adapted from the book Washington State Place Names (8th Printing, 1997)
with permission from the Publisher: University of Washington Press.
San Juan County
 San Juan County's Web Site
39th Largest County by Area - County Seat: Friday Harbor
county map

San Juan County consists of an archipelago of 172 islands in the maritime waters of northwestern Washington. It was named by Spanish explorers who entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1790, San Juan County was officially established as a separate county by act of the Washington Territorial Legislature on October 31, 1873.