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Alan McConchie

I dug into my archives and found this map I made of 2016 election results aggregated by the (then) new Whatcom County council districts introduced in 2017. Gives a rough sense of the political alignment in our small county here in the northwest corner of Washington State.

I need to update this map with new data from all the elections since 2016, obviously, but it's a hassle to work with the precinct level results. Soon.

A map I made showing the five county council districts in Whatcom County, Washington. Text on each district shows the percentage of the Trump vote in 2016. They are colored various shades of blue or red based on the percentage of votes for Trump. District 5 (called "Coastal") was 41% for Trump, and is light blue. It covers Blaine, Ferndale, and the Lummi reservation. District 4 (called "Farmlands") was 57% for Trump, and is light pink. It covers Lynden, Everson, Sumas, and the Cordata neighborhood of Bellingham. District 3 (called "Foothills") was 40% for Trump, and is light blue. It covers the entire eastern part of the county, including Lake Whatcom and Sudden Valley. District 2 ("North Bellingham") was 21% for Trump and is a darker blue. District 1 ("South Bellingham") was 15% for Trump and is the darkest shade of blue.
#wapoli#waelex#WhatcomCounty
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Alan McConchie

Via the #Whatcom Housing Alliance on FB: "The Community Development Dashboard is one of our favorite resources provided by the City of #BellinghamWA. It is a live map and dashboard reporting the number of projects in development; the number of applications in review; the total value is current projects and a bunch of other fascinating development statistics that help us understand how and where we're growing."

bellingham.maps.arcgis.com/app

A colorful map of Bellingham, Washington showing multiple various sized circles that indicate the size and location of residential housing permits under construction.
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Alan McConchie

Coincidentally, check out this article shared by local history experts The Good Time Girls about the massive forest fires that swept through #BellinghamWA #OnThisDay in 1894: instagram.com/p/Cwgs3W1vw0D/
#OTD #1894 #Whatcom @BellinghamWA

InstagramGood Time Girls on Instagram: "#Onthisday in #Bellinghistory, August 29, 1894 The Tacoma Daily News reported on fires raging at Whatcom: “Small brush fires in the Eureka Addition have been fanned into a huge fire by the strong northeasterly wind. Early yesterday morning the flames bore down upon the city near the end of F Street. Citizens turned out and fought back the flames from the residences. The fire followed the Squalicum Creek bed towards the bay, and the bridge over the creek connecting the city with the Northwest Diagonal Road was destroyed. It was 350 feet long and 40 feet high, and cost $1000. The fire department was called out at midnight, and spent the night near the woods preventing the encroachment of the flames upon residences. Eldridge’s mansion caught from a spark blown from the burning trees nearly half a mile from the house at 10 am. It was soon enveloped in flames, only one hose cart being able to reach the scene. Before the water was turned on the fire was beyond control. The mansion was totally destroyed, only a small portion of the furniture being saved... It was the finest and largest house on the bay, containing 30 rooms. In the Eureka addition near the powerhouse, twenty houses were surrounded by fire, and the firemen worked steadily for twelve hours. Along the line of the Bellingham Bay & British Columbia to the Nooksack there is a continuous line of fire. Several small houses along the outskirts have been destroyed, but it is impossible to get full details. All communication with the country by the Guide Meridian and Northwest Diagonal roads is cut off by the burning of connecting bridges. A big fire is raging beyond Sehome Hill, and the city is completely enveloped. The schoolhouse and J.A. Cook’s house at Silver Beach have been destroyed. The electric power house is reported to be safe. The bridge across Little Squalicum is afire. The citizens are aiding the firemen everywhere. The fire department thinks it is under control.” Pictured is the Eldridge mansion, which burned, near Squalicum Creek. P.R. Jeffcott collection. #fire #forestfires #historicalfires #pnwfires #bellinghamwa #bhamwa #fireseason"80 likes, 0 comments - goodtimegirlstours on August 28, 2023: "#Onthisday in #Bellinghistory, August 29, 1894 The Tacoma Daily News reported on fires raging at ..."
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Alan McConchie

"Is #BellinghamWA a heat island? #ClimateChange could hurt low-income parts of the city." via #BellinghamHerald:

Canopy coverage in Bellingham was at around 40% in 2018, above the national average of 27-33% coverage.

But: “Within Bellingham there is a lot of tree canopy inequity,” said Micheal Feerer executive director of the #Whatcom Million Trees Project. “Some neighborhoods like Birchwood [...] have a lot less tree canopy than some of the southern neighborhoods.”
bellinghamherald.com/news/loca

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Alan McConchie

I just added #SubduedSocial to the instance pickers at instances.social (@instances), mastodonservers.net, joinfediverse.wiki, masto.town, and I submitted a request for us to be added to the #regional list on joinmastodon.org. I hope more #local #BellinghamWA and #Whatcom people find us! I'm very optimistic about the potential for Mastodon for local conversations, and I hope we can provide a good home for people migrating here from the Bellingham subreddit. #RedditMigration

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