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Port Orchard is a city in and the county seat of Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located 13 miles due west of West Seattle and 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 Peninsula.
The town that was to become Port Orchard was originally platted in 1886 by Frederick Stevens, who named the new location after his father, Sidney. The town of Sidney was incorporated September 15, 1890, and was the first in Kitsap County to be both platted and incorporated. Shortly thereafter, the USA Navy sought a suitable location for another installation on the west coast, and found it with the assistance of Sidney's residents in Orchard Bay (this installation would later become the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard).
The county seat was originally in Port Madison, but moved after a popular vote to Sidney in 1892. In December of that same year, the residents of Sidney petitioned both the state legislature and the Post Office Department to rename the city to Port Orchard. The legislature refused, as Charleston (now West Bremerton) had also requested that name. The Post Office Department, however, went through with the name change, and as a result the Port Orchard post office ended up in Sidney, and the Charleston post office ended up in Port Orchard. It wasn't until 1903 that local politician Will Thompson convinced the state legislature to correct this confusing situation, and relocated the Charleston post office to Charleston, at the same time renaming Sidney to Port Orchard, as we know it today.
Kitsap County is a county located in the USA state of Washington, named after Chief Kitsap of the Suquamish tribe.
Kitsap County is connected to the eastern shore of Puget Sound by Washington State Ferries runs from Bremerton to Downtown Seattle , Southworth to West Seattle via Vashon Island, Bainbridge Island to Downtown Seattle, and from Kingston to Edmonds.
In addition to occupying most of the Kitsap Peninsula, Kitsap County includes both Bainbridge Island and Blake Island.
The portion of the county north of Silverdale is often referred to as North Kitsap, and the portion south of Bremerton as South Kitsap.
Geographic
features ; Bainbridge Island, Blake Island, Colvos Passage, Dyes Inlet, Hood Canal,
Kitsap Peninsula, Liberty Bay, Port Gamble, Port Madison, Port Orchard, Puget
Sound, Sinclair Inlet
The
Kitsap Peninsula is an arm of land that is part of the larger Olympic Peninsula
in Washington state (USA) that lies west of Seattle across Puget Sound. Hood Canal
separates Kitsap Peninsula from the rest of the Olympic Peninsula. It encompasses
all of Kitsap County except Bainbridge and Blake Islands, as well as the northeastern
part of Mason County and the northwestern part of Pierce County. The highest point
on the Kitsap Peninsula is Gold Mountain.
Washington
is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was
carved out of the western part of Washington Territory and admitted to the Union
as the 42nd state in 1889. The state is named after George Washington, the first
President of the United States. Residents are called "Washingtonians"
(emphasis on the third syllable, pronounced as tone). Washington is often called
Washington state or the State of Washington to distinguish it from the District
of Columbia (which is usually called Washington, D.C.).
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