Port Townsend /ˈtaʊnzən/ is a city in Jefferson County, Washington, United States. The population was 9,113 at the 2010 census, an increase of 9.3% over the 2000 census. It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County. In addition to its natural scenery at the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula, the city is also known for the many Victorian buildings remaining from its late 19th-century heyday, numerous annual cultural events, and as a maritime center for independent boatbuilders and related industries and crafts.
Population: 9,113
Latitude: 48° 07' 1.34" N
Longitude: -122° 45' 37.62" W
Manuel Quimper Benítez del Pino (c. 1757 – April 1844) was a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated in charting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Sandwich Islands in the late 18th century. He …
Saratoga Passage lies in Puget Sound between Whidbey Island and Camano Island.
Port Hadlock-Irondale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.
Colonel Isaac Neff Ebey (January 22, 1818 – August 11, 1857) was the first permanent white resident of Whidbey Island, Washington.
Fort Flagler State Park is a Washington state park on the site of Fort Flagler, a former United States Army fort at the northern end of Marrowstone Island.
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington is a federally recognized tribe of S'Klallam or Klallam Native Americans.
Greenbank is an unincorporated community on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, USA.
Francis William Pettygrove (1812 – October 5, 1887) was a pioneer and one of the founders of the cities of Portland, Oregon, and Port Townsend, Washington. Born in Maine, he re-located to the Oregon Country in 1843 to establish a store in Oregon Cit…
Protection Island is an island lying in the Strait of Juan de Fuca just north of Discovery Bay in northeastern Jefferson County, Washington, United States. The island has a land area of 1.534 km² (379.11 acres). It is a Federally protected National …
Smith Island is an island located in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington, about mid-way between Admiralty Inlet and Lopez Island. It is connected to the smaller Minor Island, to its east, by a low spit that is covered at high tide. The lo…
Port Townsend High School is located in Port Townsend, Washington, USA.
Fort Ebey State Park is a 645-acre (261 ha) Washington state park located 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Coupeville in Island County on Whidbey Island. Fort Ebey was built during World War II as a coastal defense near the mouth of Puget Sound. The park ha…
Camano is a census-designated place (CDP) in Island County, Washington, United States. The population was 13,347 at the 2000 census. Camano is coterminous with the namesake island on which it sits. Camano has its own ZIP code (98282) but shares a po…
Cama Beach State Park is a Washington state park facing Saratoga Passage on the southwest shore of Camano Island in Island County, preserving the site of a renovated and modernized, 1930s-era auto court and fishing resort.
Blyn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 162 at the 2000 census.
South Whidbey State Park is a Washington state park in Island County. It consists of 347 acres (140 ha) of old-growth forest and tidelands with 4,500 feet (1,400 m) of shoreline on Admiralty Inlet.
Sequim Bay State Park is a 92-acre (37 ha) Washington state park that sits within the Sequim rain shadow on the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County.
San de Fuca is an unincorporated community and geographical location on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, United States.