Pierce County, Washington, United States

Details for Pierce County

Name

Pierce County

Place Type

County

Located in

Washington, United States

County Seat

Tacoma

Coordinates

Latitude		47.0331582		47° 01' 59.4" N
Longitude		-122.1178904		122° 07' 04.4" W

Population

586,203

Elevation

387 m

Surrounding Counties

King NE
Kittitas E
Yakima SE
Lewis SW
Thurston W
Mason NW
Kitsap NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1529159

Histopolis Place ID

749320406

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Pierce County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Washington > Pierce County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Washington > Pierce County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/WA/Pierce/ (2 Aug 2010)

Pierce County, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_County,_Washington (22 Aug 2010)

Pierce County, Washington Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Pierce County, Washington
http://www.interment.net/us/wa/pierce.htm (16 May 2010)

USGenWeb Archives: Washington - Pierce County [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/pierce/pierce.htm (22 Jan 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Pierce County, Wash. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/PI.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2979 (30 Aug 2009)

Pierce County, Washington WA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Pierce County, Washington WA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23035 (25 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Pierce County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=23035&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (7 Jan 2009)

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Surveys in Pierce County

1 Survey, 12 Ranges, 71 Townships

The Willamette Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Pierce County. You can navigate to any of the 71 survey townships that overlap Pierce County using the navigation tool below.

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Cities of Pierce County

18 Cities, 6 Towns, 129 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Alder	Alderton	Allison	American Lake Garden Tract
Arletta	Artondale	Ashford	Auburn (city)
Bayview	Bee	Benroy	Berkeley
Bonney Lake (city)	Brookdale	Browns Point	Buckley (city)
Burnett	Caledonia	Canterwood	Carbonado (town)
Cascade Junction	Castlenook (historical u.p.)	Cebalop (historical u.p.)	Cedar View
Clay City	Clinton Park	Clover Park	Croker
Cromwell	Custer	Dash Point	Dieringer
DuPont (city)	East Cromwell	Eastward	Eatonville (town)
Eatonville Junction	Edgewood (city)	Elbe	Electron
Elk Plain	Enumclaw (city)	Excelsior	Fairfax
Fern Hill	Fife (city)	Fife Heights	Fircrest (city)
Forest Beach	Fort Nisqually	Fox Island	Frederickson
Gertrude	Gig Harbor (city)	Glencove	Graham
Harbor Heights	Herron	Hillhurst	Hillsdale
Hillside	Home	Hope	Interlaken
Jims Corner	Johnson Landing	Johnsons Corner	Kapowsin
Ketron	La Grande	Lake Bay	Lake City
Lakebay	Lakeview	Lakewood (city)	Larchmont
Leber	Longbranch	Longmire	Loveland
Magnolia Heights	Manitou	Maplewood	McKenna
McMillin	Meeker	Meridian	Midland
Midway	Milton (city)	Minter	Mock City
Monta Vista	National	New Reliance	Nisqually Vista
North Puyallup	Northeast Tacoma	Oakland	Ohop
Ohop Bob	Old Tacoma	Orting (city)	Pacific (city)
Paradise	Park Junction	Parkland	Peach Acres
Pioneer	Ponderosa Estates	Ponders Corner	Prairie Ridge
Purdy	Puyallup (city)	Puyallup River Junction	Reliance
Rhododendron Park	Rocky Ridge	Rosedale	Roy (city)
Ruston (town)	Salishan	Shore Acres	Snoquera
South Hill	South Prairie (town)	South Tacoma	Spanaway
Steilacoom (town)	Summit	Sumner (city)	Sunrise
Sunrise Beach	Sunset Beach	Sunshine Beach	Surprise Valley
Swede Hill	Tacoma (city)	Tacoma Junction	Tanwax
Thrift	Tillicum	Titlow	University Place (city)
Upper Fairfax	Vaughn	Voss Resort	Waller
Warren	Wauna	Wilkeson (town)	Wollochet
Yoman

Cemeteries of Pierce County

17 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Anderson Island	Buckley	Calvary	Fort Lewis
Fort Lewis Post (*)	Fox Island	Gig Harbor	Hillcrest
Home of Peace	Mount View Memorial Park	Mt. View Memorial Park (*)	New Tacoma
Oak Wood	Orting	Rainier	Sumner
Tacoma	Trinity	Woodbine

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