Also known as Oso, WA
unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Washington
- County
- Snohomish
- Total
- 3.7 sq mi (9.6 km )
- Land
- 3.6 sq mi (9.4 km )
- Water
- 0.077 sq mi (0.2 km )
- Elevation
- 207 ft (63 m)
- Density
- 47/sq mi (18/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific (PST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 (PDT)
- Fips code
- 53-52110
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- census-designated place in the United States
- Official name
- Oso
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Snohomish County
- Population
- 172
- Area
- 7.382773
- Elevation
- 207
- Time zone
- UTC−08:00
- Households
- 73
- Dialing code
- 360
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- water as percent of area
- 0.801
- per capita income
- 32887
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Encyclopedic overview
Oso is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located to the west of Darrington, south of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River and approximately 50 air miles (80 km) from Seattle. The population of Oso was 172 at the 2020 census. The area was the site of a large landslide in March 2014 that killed 43 people, the deadliest incident of its kind in U.S. history.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.