 The city is located east of Redmond and south of Duvall on State Route 203.The Snoqualmie Valley was settled by white Americans in the 1850s and 1860s following the relocation of the Snoqualmie tribe to reservations.The community of Tolt, an Anglicized name for the Tolthue River ( or ), was founded in 1865 and platted in 1902.