Sand Point is a neighborhood

Seattle neighborhoods

Seattle, Washington contains many districts and neighborhoods. Former Seattle mayor Greg Nickels has called Seattle "a city of neighborhoods." Early European settlers established widely scattered settlements on the surrounding hills, which grew into neighborhoods and autonomous towns...

 in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, United States, named after and consisting mostly of the Sand Point

Sand Point

Sand Point is a peninsula that juts into Lake Washington from north Seattle, Washington, USA. It is mostly occupied by Magnuson Park and gives its name to the Sand Point neighborhood to the west. Formerly a U.S. naval air station, it is mostly public park area, but with a portion occupied by...

 peninsula that juts into Lake Washington

Lake Washington

Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle. It is the largest lake in King County and the second largest in the state of Washington, after Lake Chelan. It is bordered by the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south and...

, which is itself largely given over to Magnuson Park. Its southern boundary can be said to be N.E. 65th Street, beyond which are Windermere

Windermere, Seattle, Washington

Windermere is a well-to-do residential neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named after Windermere in England's Lake District. It is bounded on the north by Magnuson Park, part of Sand Point; on the northwest by Sand Point Way N.E., beyond which is Hawthorne Hills; on the southwest by Ivanhoe Place...

 and Hawthorne Hills

Hawthorne Hills, Seattle, Washington

Hawthorne Hills is an upscale neighborhood in Seattle, Washington bounded on the north by NE 65th Street, on the south and east by the Burke-Gilman Trail, and on the west by 45th Avenue NE. The majority of homes were built in the 1940s to 1950s with some of the original homes dating to the 1920s...

; its northern boundary, N.E. 95th Street, beyond which is Lake City

Lake City, Seattle, Washington

Lake City is the northeast region of Seattle, centered along Lake City Way NE , 7–8 miles northeast of downtown. A broader definition of the Lake City area includes all the land between 15th Avenue NE and Lake Washington, and between NE 85th and 98th streets to the Seattle city limits at NE 145th...

. The western limit of the neighborhood, beyond which are View Ridge

View Ridge, Seattle, Washington

View Ridge is a neighborhood in north Seattle, Washington. As with all Seattle neighborhoods, its boundaries are not fixed, but can be thought of as NE 65th Street in the south, 40th and 45th Avenues NE in the west, the Sand Point Country Club in the north, and Sand Point Way NE in the east. Many...

 and Wedgwood

Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington

Wedgwood is a middle class residential neighborhood of northeast Seattle, Washington, with a modest commercial strip. Wedgwood is located about two miles north, and slightly east, of the University of Washington; it is about six miles northeast of Downtown...

, is not fixed and can be said to be anywhere up the hill that extends west from Sand Point Way N.E. as far as 35th Avenue N.E. It is also the former home of Seattle Naval Air Station.

Sand Point Airfield was the endpoint of the first aerial circumnavigation

First aerial circumnavigation

The first aerial circumnavigation of the world was conducted in 1924 by a team of aviators of the United States Army Air Service, the precursor of the United States Air Force...

 of the world in 1924. The historic flight helped convince Congress to develop Sand Point as a Naval Air Station.

A FEMA provisional detention center was set up in Sand Point during the 1999 Seattle WTO riots.