The GVRD is bordered on the west by the Strait of Georgia, to the north by the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, on the east by the Fraser Valley Regional District, and to the south by Whatcom County, Washington, in the United States.

Many other peoples of the Georgia Strait region also frequented the lower Fraser, including those from Vancouver Island and what is now Whatcom County, Washington.

About due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County, Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field.

Washington Territory's legislature created Whatcom County out of parts of Island County, including the San Juan Islands.

Category: Parks in Whatcom County, Washington

* A Douglas-fir felled in 1897 at Loop's Ranch in Whatcom County, Washington reportedly measured in height, in circumference at the butt, and to the first branch.

Whatcom County () is a county located in the U. S. state of Washington.

Whatcom County is contiguous with Bellingham Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Whatcom County was created out of Island County by the Washington Territorial Legislature on March 9, 1854, and originally included present day San Juan and Skagit Counties.

The Whatcom County government is a municipal corporation operating under a County Charter.

Whatcom County is one of only four counties in Washington to use the home rule charter provision of state law.

The Charter establishes the structure of Whatcom County government.

Whatcom County has one 9-1-1 call center located in Bellingham.

Whatcom County Fire Districts are:

* Fire District 21 ( North Whatcom Fire Rescue ) serves northwest Whatcom County including Birch Bay, Blaine, Laurel, and Lynden °.

Physiographically, Whatcom County is an extension of the Fraser Valley or " Lower Mainland " area of British Columbia, which is essentially the lowland delta plain of the Fraser River-at some times in the past one of the Fraser River's lower arms entered Bellingham Bay near Bellingham via what is now the mouth of the Nooksack River.

** Mount Baker, highest point in Whatcom County

Note that this highway does not connect to most of Whatcom County-Instead, a person would have to travel south to Sedro-Woolley in Skagit County to connect to Highway 20.

Whatcom County residents are served by a number of public and private schools.

Seven districts serve the western portion of Whatcom County.

It is also the highest rank achieved in Whatcom County.

The river is also partially blocked with a low diversion dam on the Middle Fork by the city of Bellingham to divert water into Lake Whatcom, Bellingham's drinking water supply.

Via OTA channel 8, CHAN also reaches an American audience in neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington.

He is also a competitive speed skater, and a coach in the Whatcom Speed Skating Club and developmentally disabled adults through NW Washington Special Olympics.

The Thompson language, properly known as Nlaka ' pamuctsin the Nlaka ' pamux (' Nthlakampx ') language, is an Interior Salishan language spoken in the Fraser Canyon, Thompson Canyon, Nicola Country of the Canadian province of British Columbia, and also ( historically ) in the North Cascades region of Whatcom and Chelan counties of the state of Washington in the United States.

Large mining operations also existed near the lake from the late 19th century through 1919, when the Whatcom Mining Company closed down.

The City of Bellingham and Whatcom county have also restricted development activities such as land clearing, from October 1 through May 31 annually to prevent runoff from exposed soil during high precipitation months.

Pet waste also contributes to the pollutant load in the Lake Whatcom watershed.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, of which is land and ( 15. 34 %) is water, including Lake Whatcom, which empties into Bellingham Bay by way of Whatcom Creek.

The tribe lives in the mainland northwest corner of the state near the small town of Deming, Washington ( in western Whatcom County ), and has over 1, 800 enrolled members.

However, the station only has one terrestrial transmitter, and that UHF signal only reaches Vancouver, Victoria, and neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington.

Whatcom County has a temporary ban on creations of new lots under 5 acres in the watershed.

As of the 2000 census, the Nooksack Indian Reservation, at in Whatcom County, had a resident population of 547 persons living on ) of land.

In 2001 the City of Bellingham placed a $ 5 per month fee on water bills to create a fund for purchasing land in the Lake Whatcom Watershed.

Whatcom County's northern border is the international boundary with the Canadian province of British Columbia ; adjoining the county on the north are four of metropolitan Vancouver's suburbs, Delta, White Rock, Surrey, Langley, and, in the central Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, with several shopping malls and other services in Bellingham and elsewhere in the county geared to cross-border shopping and recreation.

Given that the state itself is the # 1 producer of raspberries in the country, with over 87. 8 % of the crop in 2002, this makes Whatcom County responsible for almost 75 % of the nation's raspberry production.

Acme is locally known as a scenic area with a number of camping opportunities along Lake Whatcom, including the Lake Whatcom Railroad.

Goshen was a pioneer town in western Whatcom County ( approximately 5 miles northeast of Bellingham, and 10 miles south of the US border with Canada ).

At one point Goshen hoped to compete with Whatcom ( now Bellingham ) and Seattle for the western depot of the railroad line which was being laid north to Washington State, which would guarantee economic investment and much traffic.

In August 1898, he founded the Whatcom Logging Company with fellow frontier businessmen John Joseph Donovan and Peter Larson, which would later become known as the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills.

Customers can voluntarily support biomass generation with the utility ’ s Green Power Program, supporting “ dairy digester ” power-generating projects in Whatcom and Skagit counties, as well those involving the use of wood and paper manufacturing by-products and methane extracted from area landfills.

Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association ( NSEA ) was formed in 1990 as a non-profit organization with an overall goal of seeing an increase in returning natural spawning salmon to the over 1, 600 km of rivers and streams in Whatcom County, Washington in the United States

Whatcom County is home to seven species of salmon ( chinook, chum, coho, pink, sockeye, steelhead and kokanee ), along with several other salmonids ( bull trout, Dolly Varden, both sea-run and resident cutthroat, and rainbow trout ) which rely heavily on the return of salmon each year.

Public access is limited but a Whatcom County park with a rough boat launch is located along the northern shore.

A continuing influx of newcomers replaced the disenchanted, with even more men storming the route of the Douglas Road to the upper part of Fraser Canyon around Lillooet ; others got to the upper canyon via the Okanagan Trail and Similkameen Trail, and to the lower Canyon via the Whatcom Trail and the Skagit Trail.