San Juan County consists of an archipelago of 172 islands
in the maritime waters of northwestern Washington. It was
named by Spanish explorers who entered the Strait of Juan
de Fuca in 1790, San Juan County was officially established
as a separate county by act of the Washington Territorial
Legislature on October 31, 1873.
1956 bulletin from the County Agricultural Data Series created by NASS, then known as the Crop and Livestock
Reporting Service. Links are to different chapters within the bulletin and are in Adobe PDF format.