Lake Forest Park Towne Centre, the city's commercial core, was built in 1964 and hugs Bothell Way on the eastern border of town, not far from the lakeshore.

Bothell was officially incorporated on April 14, 1909.

* Downtown Bothell, north of Bothell Way on the north side of the Sammamish River, was an area originally settled by pioneers.

Prior to 1993, the nearby city of Woodinville was unincorporated, and some of its neighborhoods were considered part of Bothell and were being considered for annexation.

", photographer Charles Peterson recalls that when he was growing up in Bothell the sign welcoming people to the town read " Welcome to Bothell, for a day or a lifetime ," and an unknown person spray-painted over the " Bot " so that the sign would read " Welcome to hell, for a day or a lifetime.

Bothell was until recently predominantly a bedroom community with most of its residents working outside of the city.

Defunct retailer Pacific Linen was once based in Bothell until 1996.

Cavedog Entertainment, or Cavedog, was a video game developer based in Bothell, Washington.

After 1970, the easternmost portion of SR 522 from Bothell to Woodinville, Redmond, and North Bend was renumbered as State Route 202, and the portion of what had been SR 202 between Bothell and Monroe was renumbered as SR 522.

The most recent to join was Bothell, in 1992.

Established in 2000, Cascadia was built to serve the cities of Bothell, Woodinville, Kirkland, Kenmore, Duvall, Carnation, Sammamish, Redmond and other smaller communities.

Ellen Howe was born in Bothell on May 25, 1932 and grew up in Silverdale, the fifth child in a household of seven children.

The Northshore School District was formed in February 1959 by the consolidation of the Bothell and Woodinville School Districts.

* Riverfront, south of Bothell Way and mostly along the south side of the river near Riverside Drive, contains Sammamish River Park, Blyth Park, several residences, and the Northshore Senior Center.

* Thrasher's Corner is a retail district mostly outside the city limits of Bothell, that along with the residential Red Hawk neighborhood to the east is part of the city's official planning area.

The North Creek community is located along the southern portion of North Creek, just north of the creek's mouth at the Sammamish River in Bothell.

Presently, a small remnant of the Love Family lives in Brackett's Landing, a suburban residential community northeast of Seattle in Bothell, Washington.

It seems that differing sources of information on the Love Family's duration exist ; whereas some sources claim that after 1984, only a small fraction of the community remained in existence in a small location in suburban Bothell, Washington, according to the Seattle Times newspaper and an article written by Serious Israel, the Love Family continued after a fractious conflict in 1984, living on their property in Arlington, Washington.

Cascadia Community College is an American community college located in Bothell, Washington on a shared campus with the University of Washington, Bothell.

The growth of Bothell in the early 1990s led to plans for it to annex Woodinville ; the residents of Woodinville responded by voting for incorporation in 1992.

* Woodin Elementary ( although within the corporate limits of Bothell, much of the service area for Woodin Elementary lies within the Woodinville city limits )

Schools for Bothell students in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade are part of the Northshore School District while private schools include Heritage Christian Academy serving Kindergarten through 9th grades.

Bothell's Pop Keeney Stadium hosts games for several local high schools, including Inglemoor, Woodinville, and Bothell High Schools

In November 2006, Bothell High School's football team tied the national record for most overtime periods ( 9 ) in a quarter-final game against Pasco, which they won 43-40.

In 2009 the Bothell Alumni club raised money to get a state of the art scoreboard for Pop Keeney Stadium.

In 2007, about 5, 000 to 7, 000 people gathered for a parade and outdoor concert at the Veterans Memorial Amphitheater at Bothell Landing in honor of local American Idol contestant Blake Lewis.

In the 2004 U. S. presidential election, Bothell cast 56. 29 % of its vote for Democrat John Kerry.

At Blyth Park in Bothell the trail becomes the Sammamish River Trail and continues for to Marymoor Park, Redmond, on Lake Sammamish.

On April 29, 2004, Sims announced his intention to temporarily locate a tent city on county-owned land near Bothell, Washington and gave the King County Council 90 days to determine a more permanent location within the county for the tent city to be located.

These changes included almost in new light rail lines, four new parking garages, two new Sounder stations, a streetcar line connecting First Hill, Capitol Hill, and the International District, a transit center in Bothell, and two expansion studies, one for studying rapid transit across the SR-520 floating bridge and the other studying the use of the Woodinville Subdivision between Renton and Woodinville.

The UW also has increased access for Washington students by expanding UW Bothell and UW Tacoma to four-year programs in the fall of 2006.

Korel Engin ( born April 8, 1980 in Bothell, Washington ), aka Cori Enghusen, is U. S. born Turkish female basketball player at the center position for Beşiktaş Cola Turka.

Bothell also has companies working on new or improved energy technologies, including Neah Power Systems.

Until 1914 and completion of the Red Brick Road ( now Bothell Way, part of State Route 522 ) to nearby Kenmore and Bothell, it also marked the literal end of improved roads heading north from Seattle, with best access to points further north and east being by boat across Lake Washington or the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway.

Biotechnology is a key industry, with OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Seattle Genetics, CMC Icos, Alder Biopharmaceuticals, MDRNA, Blue Heron Biotechnology, Amgen, Iverson Genetic Diagnostics, and Elitech ( formerly Epoch Biosciences and Nanogen ) all opening in Bothell.

The Seattle Times moved its main production facility to the North Creek business district in Bothell in 2001, and national magazine publisher Scotsman guide Media also is headquartered in the city.

In addition to the historical accomplishment, the SLS & E built and ran branches from Seattle through Bothell, on to Woodinville, to Sallal Prairie ( just past North Bend ); Salmon Bay ( the industrial district of the town of Ballard ); and Spokane to Davenport.

The Sammamish River Trail is a paved bicycle and walking trail that runs along the river, from Marymoor Park in Redmond, to Bothell, where it connects to the Burke-Gilman Trail to Seattle.

Upon crossing the Seattle city limits into Lake Forest Park, its name changes to Bothell Way N. E.

Once called the Red Brick Road, SR 522 originally connected Downtown Seattle to the towns of Lake City, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, Bothell, Redmond, Falls City and points east.

The Seattle Parks Department considers the Burke-Gilman segment of the trail to end in Kenmore ; King County considers that the segments divide in Bothell, Judge Burke and Daniel Gilman's original Road east ran past Snoqualmie Falls, before North Bend.

The company initially had temporary offices in downtown Seattle, but moved to Bothell in September 1990.

Presently, KVOS provides grade B coverage of Seattle's northern suburbs ( such as Everett, Edmonds, Bothell and Lynnwood ), but just misses Seattle itself.