Renton is a city in
King County,
Washington,
United States. Situated southeast of
downtown Seattle, Washington, Renton straddles the southeast shore of
Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. While long an important salmon fishing area for Native Americans, Renton was first settled by people of European descent in the 1860s, and its early economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton is best known as the final assembly point for the
Boeing 737 family of commercial airplanes, but it is also home to a growing number of well known manufacturing, technology, and service companies, including
Boeing,
Paccar,
GEICO,
Parallels, Inc.,
Providence Health & Services, and
Wizards of the Coast. The population was 90,927 at the
2010 census. Renton currently contains the
8th largest population in the state, and is the 4th largest in
King County. The
National Football League's
Seattle Seahawks have a training facility in Renton. It is the second-largest facility in the NFL at .