Browse Redmond People Directories

Choosing Redmond People Directories

Redmond people directories describe roles rather than one complete resident list. A city directory identifies current public contacts. A school page identifies faculty and staff at a campus. County property and recorded-document systems list owners, taxpayers, buyers, sellers, and other parties. Archive holdings reach people who lived, taught, voted, owned land, or appeared in community sources long before current web listings existed.

Start with the directory that fits the relationship. Search a public agency for an official contact, a school for a staff role, or the property roll for an owner. For past Redmond residents, move to dated records and keep the volume year with every result. A matching name alone does not prove that two entries describe one person.

Search Redmond Staff Directories

The Redmond city staff directory searches current contacts by service category, first name, or last name. Categories include the mayor, council, City Clerk, Public Records, Police Records, planning, code enforcement, parks, finance, fire, public works, and other departments. Browsing a category often works better than guessing an employee's name. It can reveal a direct service desk even when no individual result appears.

An Executive Department entry can show the name in surname-first order, title, email, phone, and an additional phone. Department blocks may add the office address, main number, fax, and program link. They do not show a home address, birth date, or private phone. When the current listing fails, call the relevant department or the City Clerk at 425-556-2900. An identifiable older city record may be requested through the Public Records Center.

King County has a separate system. The county employee and service directory is the official place to check county roles that serve Redmond but are not city positions.

The county screen reinforces the key distinction: a King County contact may serve Redmond without appearing in the city's own directory.

A typical Redmond city department entry may contain:

• Name in surname-first order
• Official title and department
• Work email address
• Direct or main work phone
• Additional phone and department contact details when supplied

Redmond School Directory Paths

The Lake Washington School District does not provide a verified districtwide name-query form. Instead, use its staff directory entry point and open a school's own staff page. Redmond Elementary, for example, arranges people under administrators, office staff, grade levels, specialists, reading, special education, multilingual learning, counseling, paraeducators, assistants, and custodial roles. Browser Find can locate a surname on a long static page.

Entries show a person's name, school role or section, and district email. They do not establish a residence, personal phone, class roster, biography, or start date. Lake Washington School District covers Redmond, Kirkland, and about half of Sammamish, so a district affiliation is not proof that someone lives within Redmond city limits.

Redmond Owner Directory Records

Two King County systems act like role-based people directories. eReal Property connects a taxpayer or owner name to a parcel, site address, jurisdiction, property facts, valuation, and selected sales history. Landmark Records Search indexes grantors and grantees. A grantor transfers an interest, while a grantee receives one. Neither label means the person occupied the property.

Landmark's name index begins in 1976. Most document images begin August 1, 1991. Earlier grantor and grantee indexes are on microfilm at King County Archives, where staff needs a party name and a reasonably narrow year span. Parcel numbers did not appear consistently in recorded-document indexes until about 2002, so a name or legal-description search may work better for older transfers.

A practical trail is address to Parcel Viewer, parcel to eReal Property, owner name to Landmark, then cited predecessor instruments to Archives. Postal Redmond does not always equal the City of Redmond. Parcel Viewer's jurisdiction field should settle which government keeps city permits or code records. Detailed access law and request steps belong with Redmond public records.

Redmond Professional Name Directories

Washington's official business and professional systems identify a person's recorded role. The Corporations and Charities Filing System can find an entity by business name or UBI, then show registered agents, governors, filing history, status, and formation date. A registered agent may be a service provider shared by many entities. The role is not the same as owner, employee, or Redmond resident.

The Department of Licensing lookup searches by name, license number, license type, and location. Results can provide issue date, active status, and expiration. Contractors and trades have a separate L&I Verify system; health credentials use the Department of Health search; lawyers use the Washington State Bar directory; and educator credentials use the state education system. Search the board that regulates the role, then preserve the credential status and date.

UBI

A nine-digit Unified Business Identifier used across Washington business systems.

Governor

A person listed in an entity's governing role, not a statement of residence.

Registered agent

The person or service designated to receive official papers for an entity.

Credential status

The agency's current label for whether a professional license is active or otherwise restricted.

Which Redmond Does It Describe?

Redmond's directory populations differ sharply. The city estimated roughly 80,040 residents in 2023 and 2024, while its adopted plan gives a daytime population near 147,000. Work directories therefore capture many commuters. Overlake's large employers make public and professional contacts especially plentiful, but those contacts say little about where a person sleeps or votes.

School boundaries add another layer. A Lake Washington district listing can point to Redmond, Kirkland, or Sammamish. A postal address can sit outside city limits. Property rolls identify owners and taxpayers, not all occupants. Treat residence, workplace, school affiliation, postal city, and parcel jurisdiction as five distinct facts. This geographic discipline prevents a plausible directory match from becoming a false identity claim.

Note: Use dates and role labels whenever two Redmond directory results disagree about a person's address or affiliation.

Browse Historical Redmond Directories

The Puget Sound Regional Archives holds selected King County Polk directories for 1914-15, 1919-20, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1938-40, and 1948-83. A Polk volume is a printed name and business directory. Some editions may include address-to-occupant sections, often called reverse or criss-cross directories. Confirm that a specific volume covers Redmond before expecting a result.

The branch also holds probate indexes from 1853-1977, property cards from 1937-1972, and assessment rolls beginning in 1862 with gaps. Contact the branch before visiting because its research room is appointment-only Wednesday through Friday. Phone and email requests are handled Monday and Tuesday. Historic property cards require a parcel number or brief legal description, not just a street address.

Redmond Community History Directories

The Redmond Historical Society archive is the strongest hyperlocal route for names in the Sammamish Valley News, yearbook and obituary inventories, oral histories, photographs, property research, and Derby Days material. Exact coverage years are not published for every set, so ask staff about the name, event, organization, and date range. Its evidence can supply an alternate surname spelling or approximate year for a formal archive search.

The King County Library System genealogy hub provides research databases and newspaper access. Redmond Library can help with those tools, while Bellevue Library holds KCLS's documented Eastside specialist genealogy collection. KCLS obituary requests search the death date plus ten days and usually take up to 14 working days. No obituary hit does not prove that a death did not occur because publication was optional.

Reconnect Through Redmond School Records

A classmate or former teacher may appear across several directory eras. Begin with a Redmond Historical Society yearbook or newspaper reference. Take the school, year, activity, and exact spelling into county school censuses, teacher registers, board records, or local newspaper databases. Those official and community sources can confirm the context without relying on a private alumni roster.

School censuses span 1896-1932, while teacher and official registers run from the 1890s into the 1950s. Modern campus pages fill only the current end of the timeline. No verified public residential white pages, alumni member directory, congregation list, neighborhood roster, or union roster was found for Redmond. That absence should remain explicit rather than be filled with unverified commercial listings.

Search Redmond's Earlier Names

Redmond incorporated in 1912, but its community record began earlier. The settlement was known as Salmonberg, briefly Melrose, and then Redmond after Luke McRedmond's post-office petition. Search all three names in archive catalogs, digitized newspapers, maps, census indexes, and family collections. A pre-1912 person may be indexed under King County, Sammamish Valley, a school district, or a former place name.

Early residents also appear under farms, mills, hotels, businesses, and land descriptions instead of household directories. The railway's arrival in 1888 changed settlement and record patterns. For that era, combine territorial or federal census entries with land, marriage, probate, church, newspaper, and cemetery sources. Washington's Digital Archives continues to add transcriptions, so a negative online search can be worth repeating later.

Note: Record each directory's title, creator, date, geography, and repository so another researcher can reproduce the result.