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Port Orchard is a city in and the county seat of Kitsap County, Washington, United States. [6] It is located 13 miles (21 km) due west of West Seattle and is connected to Seattle and Vashon Island via the Washington State Ferries run to Southworth. It is named after Port Orchard, the strait that separates Bainbridge Island from the Kitsap ...
Port Orchard, part of Washington state's Puget Sound, is the strait that separates Bainbridge Island on the east from the Kitsap Peninsula on the west. It extends from Liberty Bay and Agate Pass in the north to Sinclair Inlet and Rich Passage in the south. It was named in May 1792 by George Vancouver after Harry Masterman Orchard, ship's clerk ...
Kitsap County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 275,611. [1] Its county seat is Port Orchard; [2] its largest city is Bremerton. The county, formed out of King County and Jefferson County on January 16, 1857, is named for Chief Kitsap of the Suquamish Tribe. Originally named Slaughter County ...
East Port Orchard is located at (47.521061, -122.625086 [ 4 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2 ), all of it land.
Long Lake has seen a myriad of environmental concerns and repeatedly must close due to noxious invasive weeds, parasites, algae, and even E. coli. [5] This is due to runoffs, chemicals, environmental imbalances, and other environmental hazards infecting the waters.
Olalla is a small unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located on Colvos Passage on Puget Sound, just north of the Pierce County county line. Olalla used to be as large as Port Orchard, the county seat of Kitsap County. Olalla was settled in its early years by a large number of Norwegian and other ...
The Kitsap Public Health District attributes high bacteria levels to high use of the park and a lack of an outlet to circulate water. [6] In 1960, seventy acres of land that include the southeast corner of Horseshoe Lake were purchased by Crista Camps, an organization that operates a Christian summer camp and ranch that serves 12,000 campers a ...
Port Gamble Tribal Community is a census-designated place (CDP) corresponding to the Port Gamble S'Klallam Reservation in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 916 at the 2010 census .