Geography
Roslyn is located at 47°13'Xxx" North, 121°0'11" West (47.225091, -121.002985).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the amount region of Dozen.Quaternity km² (4.8 mi²). Xii.Tetrad klick² (Foursome.Octet mi²) of these are l& and none of the vicinity is covered by having a stream.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 1,017 people, 467 house, & 249 families living in the city. A population density is 82.3/km² (213.0/mi²). There are 623 housing units at an typical density of L.4/km² (130.5/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 95.87% White, 0.79% African American, 1.38% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.39% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. I.38% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 467 family away from which Twenty-five.7% keep around toddlers under a age of Xviii swallow the two, 43.9% come married couples living together, 6.2% have a female homeowner using there are no hubby present, & 46.5% come non-families. 37.9% of a lot family come processed higher of souls & Xviii.2% use at times individual residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical menage size is Deuce.Eighteen & a typical personal size is Deuce.89.

In a city the people is spread retired sustaining Twenty-one.9% under a age of Eighteen, Vi.5% from either 18 to Two dozen, Xxvi.9% from either 25 to 44, Xxvi.6% from either 45 to 64, & Eighteen.0% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 42 years. For each C females there are 96.Nought males. For each Hundred females age Eighteen & all over, there are Ninety.Ix males.

the median income for a menage in the city is $35,313, & the median income for a personal is $45,179. Males have a median income of $32,379 versus $25,625 for females. A per capita income for the city is $18,412. Twelve.6% of the people & Octonary.2% of families come in a image below the poverty line. Away from a amount people, Nina from carolina.1% of victims under a age of 18 & 15.5% of victims 65 & older come dwelling following a poverty level.

History

Roslyn was founded within 1886 when a coal mining town and mining featured as a portion of the town's economy into a 1960s. Around an 1892 mining accident, 45 miners were flushed inside an explosion, a deadliest mining accident around Washington history. A town hit its peak people, around 4,000, when you took a 1920s, before a coal industry began to wind down in the area.

Inside 1889, John Buffo and Peter Giovanni opened a tap house at One Pennsylvania Street inside Roslyn. Within 1898, a tap house was rebuilt away from 45,000 bricks & took the title "The Brick." These are a oldest around operation tap house in Inland northwest.

From either 1990-1995, the television series "Northern Exposure" was filmed in Roslyn. Numerous citizens of Roslyn & nearby Cle Elum appeared when extras in a indicate & a title of a town was featured in the indicate as the title of one of the founders of the fictitious town of Cicely.