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Cumberland, Washington
Cumberland, Washington is located in Washington (state)
Cumberland, Washington
Cumberland, Washington
Location in Washington (state)
Cumberland, Washington is located in the United States
Cumberland, Washington
Cumberland, Washington
Location in the United States
Country United States
State Washington
County King
Elevation
850 ft (260 m)
Time zone UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP codes
98022
Area code(s) 360
GNIS feature ID 1518407

Cumberland is an unincorporated community in King County, Washington. Originally a mining camp, Cumberland was named by F.X. Schreiner in 1893 after the Cumberland coal region of the Appalachian Mountains. Cumberland gained a post office on October 13, 1894. Today, the Enumclaw post office serves this area. Although many other mining camps in the area have disappeared, Cumberland can still be found in the Cascade foothills between Nolte State Park and Kanaskat-Palmer State Park. It is accessible via Southeast King County backroads.

Cumberland is within the KCFD #28 fire department service area, also known as the Enumclaw Fire Department, which is a combined paid and volunteer service. It is a King County registered voting precinct.

In 1989 the county-wide transit and sewage waste municipality known as "Metro" (short for Metropolitan King County), planned a 25-year sewage sludge waste spraying on the 400 acres (1.6 km2) of woods northwest of the town. Following grassroots community protest and objections from the Muckleshoot Native American tribe (who are downriver on the nearby Green River), the county agreed to create an Environmental impact statement (EIS). The EIS showed a number of toxins present in the sludge, and the project was officially cancelled in 1992.

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