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The Kitsap Peninsula, bounded by the Hood Canal and Puget Sound, is an entirely separate peninsula and is not connected to the Olympic Peninsula. From Olympia, the state capital, U.S. Route 101 runs along the Olympic Peninsula's eastern, northern, and western shorelines. The Olympic mountain range sits in the center of the Olympic Peninsula ...
Port Angeles (/ ˈ æ n dʒ əl ə s / AN-jəl-əs) is a city and county seat of Clallam County, Washington, United States. [7] The population was 19,960 at the 2020 census, [5] it is the most populous city in the county, as well as the most populous city on the Olympic Peninsula. The population was estimated at 20,101 in 2023. [6]
The Bay Area consists of nine counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
Many coastal peninsulas of California are properly headlands and are often called points, as in Oxford English Dictionary's senses 19b "projecting part of anything of a more or less tapering form...a sharp prominence" and 22 "a promontory or cape; the tip of a piece of land running out to sea...frequently in place names."
U.S. Route 101 (US 101) is a United States Numbered Highway that runs along the West Coast from Los Angeles, California to Tumwater, Washington.Within the state of Washington, US 101 connects cities on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and encircles the Olympic Peninsula around the Olympic Mountains.
The county seat and only incorporated city is Port Townsend. [2] The county is named for Thomas Jefferson. [3] Jefferson County was formed out of Thurston County on December 22, 1852, by the legislature of Oregon Territory, [4] and included the northern 4,854-square-mile (12,571.8 km 2) portion of the Olympic Peninsula.
The City-County owns several disjunct properties along the whole of the Peninsula (mostly water pumping stations connected to the Hetch Hetchy Valley on which San Francisco has a permanent leasehold) – thus, most of the larger communities in San Mateo County are de facto suburbs of San Francisco, with the neighboring communities of Pacifica ...
The Quinault Valley entrance to Olympic National Park is accessible from North Shore Road, which leaves US 101 at the northern edge of the CDP. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Amanda Park CDP has a total area of 8.5 square miles (22.0 km 2 ), of which 8.2 square miles (21.3 km 2 ) are land and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km 2 ), or 3.24% ...