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Port Townsend / ˈ t aʊ n z ən d / is a city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.The population was 10,148 at the 2020 United States Census.It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County.
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,977. [1] The county seat and only incorporated city is Port Townsend. [2]
The community is 8 miles (13 km) south of Port Townsend and 18 miles (29 km) north of Port Gamble. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.8 square miles (20.1 km 2), of which 6.7 square miles (17.3 km 2) are land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km 2), or 13.77%, are water.
The site is along US 101, near today's Broders Road. [2] There are several other communities located on or near the shores of Discovery Bay. Port Townsend occupies the northern end of the Quimper Peninsula, 5 miles (8 km) east of the northeast corner of the bay. The downtown area of Port Townsend, a famous seaport (once the major port of the ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [3] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Port Townsend is located at the northeastern tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and developed beginning about 1850 as a strategically placed well-sheltered deep-harbor port at the junction of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Admiralty Inlet, which provide access to Puget Sound. It grew as a major customs point, and as a shipment point for ...
Port Townsend, the county seat and only incorporated city in the county, is located at the end of the peninsula. The communities of Cape George, Port Hadlock, Irondale, and Chimacum are on the peninsula south of Port Townsend. The name "Quimper Peninsula" has become a convenient means of referring collectively to Port Townsend and the ...
Port Ludlow is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Washington, United States. It is also the name of the marine inlet on which the community is located. [4] The CDP's population was 2,603 at the 2010 census, [5] up from 1,968 at the 2000 census.