The Lakeridge and Skyway neighborhoods of unincorporated King County lie to the southeast and southwest, respectively, of Rainier View.

The Xacuabš (hah-chu-ahbsh, 'Lake People' or 'People of the Large Lake') were related to, but distinct from, the Dkhw'Duw'Absh ('People of the Inside') tribe of the Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish Nations.

The route became that of Rainier Avenue South (1937), the main road to Renton, and until 1940, to Snoqualmie Pass, until the innovative Lake Washington Floating Bridge opened at the nearby Mount Baker neighborhood.

An electric trolley line came to Rainier Valley in 1891, terminating in Columbia City, and extended to Renton in 1896.

He included a park area on the cove, built a pier, bath house, boat house, picnic facilities—and sold the land to multiple buyers when he got around to platting the properties snapped up by eager buyers attracted by the adjacent amenities, as well as allowing multiple street naming rights.

For the horses (1914–1924), the floor of the single equipment bay was sloped to reduce the starting jolt in responding to a fire alarm.

[1] With a sewer outfall near the beaches of Atlantic City Park and dramatic collapses in water quality in the 1950s, the neighborhood benefited greatly with the Metro cleanup of Lake Washington in the 1960s.

[7] Today Rainier Beach has a population of 6,006 and is roughly 55% African American, 20% Asian, 10% Caucasian, 10% Hispanic and 5% from other races.

[8] Rainier Beach is now one of only two neighborhoods in the city (the other being the southern end of the Central District) where Blacks make up a majority.

[9] On November 25, 2014, the neighborhood became the site of several protests following the decision in Ferguson, Missouri, not to indict police officer Darren Wilson over the killing of Michael Brown.

Too steep for houses in the 19th century, Lakeridge Park preserves 35.8 acres (14.5 ha) of Taylor Creek and Deadhorse Canyon.

The creek was largely spared the assault of urban development by the relative remoteness of its watershed through the boom development decades 1850–1910 and the efforts of the business of Master Gardener Fujitaro Kubota from 1927, interrupted by World War II Japanese American Internment, until his death in 1973.

To the north, this station connects Rainier Beach to Downtown Seattle, Capitol Hill, and the University of Washington.