North Bend is a city in King County, Washington, United States, on the outskirts of the Seattle metropolitan area. The population was 7,461 at the 2020 census.

Since the postponement of Weyerhaeuser’s Snoqualmie sawmill, North Bend has become a prosperous bedroom community for Seattle, which is located nearly 30 miles (48 km) to the west. The town was made famous by David Lynch’s television series Twin Peaks, which was partially filmed in North Bend. The community is also house to Nintendo North Bend, the main North American production capability and distribution center for the video game console manufacturer Nintendo.

The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has resided in the Snoqualmie Prairie, including the area now known as North Bend, for thousands of years. This prairie southeast of Snoqualmie Falls was the ancestral home, hunting and forage grounds for the Snoqualmie people and was located in the upper Snoqualmie Valley close the Snoqualmie River fork confluence, Mount Si, and the western foothills of the Cascade Range.

One of the first American explorers to the upper Snoqualmie Valley was Samuel Hancock who arrived in 1851. Hancock traveled upriver past his Snoqualmie guides, fording canoes around the falls to attain Snoqualmie Prairie, searching for coal deposits. He was taken to a “very extensive and fertile prairie” about two miles above Snoqualmie Falls. The beautiful retrieve grassland came to be known as the Snoqualmie Prairie, the heart of which is now known as Tollgate and Meadowbrook farms. The Snoqualmies, led by Chief Patkanim, later sided later than early settlers in the 1850s Indian Wars and were one of the signatory tribes of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, which bungled to designate an Indian reservation for the Snoqualmies. Some of the soldiers in those wars, such as the Kellogg brothers, established cabins close remaining Snoqualmie blockhouses; however, the most well known American resident in the valley was Jeremiah Borst, who arrived in 1858.