Editing Startup, Washington (section)

==History==

Startup was homesteaded by F.M. Sparling in the 1880s.<ref name=majors>{{Cite book| last = Majors | first = Harry M. | title = Exploring Washington | publisher = Van Winkle Publishing Co | year = 1975 | page = 87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ| isbn = 978-0-918664-00-6}}</ref> He left the area in 1889 after getting married and sold his property to William Wait, who filed a [[plat]] for the town of Wallace on March 22, 1890.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 29, 1976 |title=Startup's history traced to bachelor's pad |page=EC15 |work=[[The Everett Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-herald-startups-history-trace/166990160/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=March 1, 2025}}</ref> The town's name caused confusion with mail being mistakenly sent to [[Wallace, Idaho]], and in 1901 the name was changed to Startup to honor George G. Startup, manager of the Wallace Lumber Company.<ref>{{cite book|last=Meany|first=Edmond S.|title=Origin of Washington geographic names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027074981;view=1up;seq=303|year=1923|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|page=287}}</ref>

The Startup post office was established in 1900.<ref>Helbock, Richard W. (1998) ''United States Post Offices, Volume 1 - The West'', p. 189, Lake Oswego, Oregon: La Posta Publications</ref>

The settlement was mistakenly excluded from receiving mailed questionnaires for the [[2000 United States census|2000 census]] due to a post office error.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cornwall |first=Warren |date=April 8, 2000 |title=Uncounted in Startup: Census Bureau overlooks tiny town |page=1A |work=[[The Everett Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-herald-uncounted-in-startup-c/171664533/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=May 4, 2025}}</ref>