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Welcome to Richmond Beach ...

Richmond Beach is located in King County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Richmond Beach, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1910.

A typical abbreviation for Richmond Beach: Richmond Bch.

Richmond Beach is near sea level<2>.

Time Zone: Richmond Beach lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Richmond Beach ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Richmond Beach - it's located in Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Richmond Beach.

Communities near Richmond Beach ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Richmond Beach.

  • Seattle
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Bellevue
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Everett
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everett
    • Everett is located in Snohomish County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 112,482 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Everett <3>
  • Kirkland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Redmond
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Sammamish
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Bothell
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Bremerton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Lynnwood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Mercer Island
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercer Island
    • Mercer Island is located in King County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 25,912 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Richmond Beach. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Richmond Beach.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Richmond Beach. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Richmond Beach.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Richmond Beach. See our Newspapers Page for Richmond Beach.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Richmond Beach ...

Looking for more information about Richmond Beach? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Richmond Beach, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Richmond Beach.

Adding Richmond Beach to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Richmond Beach in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Richmond Beach was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Richmond Beach post office opened in 1910.

We also found Richmond Beach on a map titled Auto Trails Map of Washington (1925).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Richmond Beach.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Washington's counties, including King, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Richmond Beach - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/