Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Burien, Washington

Burien ( BYUR-ee-ən) is a suburban city in King County, Washington, United States, located south of Seattle upon Puget Sound. As of the 2020 census, Burien’s population was 52,066, which is a 56.3% increase since captivation in 1993. An annexation in 2010 increased the city’s population significantly.

Settlement in the Burien Place dates to 1864, when George Ouellet (1831–1899), a French-Canadian born in Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec, purchased his first of several land patents for homestead sites directly from a federal house office. Ouellet had first arrived in the Washington Territory at Port Madison upon Bainbridge Island, off the Kitsap Peninsula, in 1858. Three years after purchasing his homestead in the Burien area, he married 14-year-old Elizabeth Cushner, who was born in the Washington Territory, and started a family. Several years later, the Ouellet associates moved to the White River Valley, near Auburn.

A popular local tale recounts that an yet to be settler named Mike Kelly gave the community its first declare after he emerged from the trees and said, “This is essentially a sunny dale.” Today, a few long-time residents yet refer to the Burien Place as Sunnydale.