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Kitsap County is connected to the eastern shore of Puget Sound by Washington State Ferries routes, including the Seattle-Bremerton Ferry, Southworth to West Seattle via Vashon Island, Bainbridge Island to Downtown Seattle, and from Kingston to Edmonds, Washington.
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Kitsap County is a county located in the U. S. state of Washington, named after Chief Kitsap of the Suquamish tribe.
Kitsap County was formed out of King County, Washington, and Jefferson County, Washington on January 16, 1857.
In addition to occupying most of the Kitsap Peninsula, Kitsap County includes both Bainbridge Island and Blake Island.
Kitsap County was organized in 1857.
Kitsap County as seen from Whidbey Island
Kitsap County is generally considered to be a marginally Democratic area.
On mainland Kitsap County, politics are dominated by working-class Bremerton, which casts moderate margins for Democratic candidates.
However, population shifts have resulted in Bremerton playing less of a role in politics, and unincorporated Kitsap County is a mix of battleground areas and staunchly Republican areas.
Non-Bremerton parts of incorporated mainland Kitsap County vary, with Silverdale being marginally Republican, Poulsbo somewhat Democratic, and Port Orchard having been an exact tie in the 2004 election.
Democratic legislative electoral control of Kitsap County is partly due to Bainbridge Island, which casts a significant number of votes and is almost 3-to-1 Democratic.
The Kitsap County Auditor Website has detailed election results from 1998 to the present.
According to historian Bill Speidel, when peninsular prohibitionists threatened to shut down Seattle's saloons, Doc Maynard engineered a peninsular independence movement ; King County lost what is now Kitsap County, but preserved its entertainment industry.
The Hood Canal Bridge connects Jefferson County to Kitsap County, Washington.
* Kitsap County, Washington-southeast
* Kitsap County, Washington-southwest
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It is bordered on the south by Sinclair Inlet, on the west by the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap, and on the north and east by the city of Bremerton, Washington.
The United States Navy is the largest employer in the county, with installations at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport, and Naval Base Kitsap ( which comprises former NSB Bangor, and NS Bremerton ).
The portion of the county north of Silverdale is often referred to as North Kitsap, and the portion south of Bremerton as South Kitsap.
Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.
Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap.
Bremerton, the largest city in Kitsap County, is located on the Kitsap Peninsula and is bounded on the southeast and east by Sinclair Inlet and the strait of Port Orchard respectively.
Bremerton is divided among three state legislative districts in Kitsap County.
Bremerton is home to the Kitsap BlueJackets baseball team of the summer collegiate West Coast League.
It is also the home of the Kitsap Pumas soccer team in the USL Premier Development League ( PDL ).
East Port Orchard is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.
Erland's Point-Kitsap Lake is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.
Indianola is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, located on the north shore of Port Madison on the Port Madison Indian Reservation, home of the Suquamish Indian Tribe.
Manchester is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.
Kitsap and connected
From 1925 to 1936, a ferry route across Puget Sound connected Alki Point with Manchester, Washington on the Kitsap Peninsula.
The Kitsap Peninsula, bounded by the Hood Canal and the Puget Sound, is an entirely separate peninsula and is not connected to the Olympic Peninsula.
** Kitsap County: west of Seattle, separated from the city by Puget Sound ; connected to Seattle by ferry and to Tacoma by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Kitsap and eastern
The U. S. Navy's Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor Annex, is located on the eastern shore of Hood Canal near the town of Bangor.
Although the route of SR 16 geographically runs north – south, its even number indicates an east – west route, and is usually signed as such, with the western terminus in at State Route 3 in Gorst near Bremerton on the Kitsap Peninsula and the eastern terminus at Interstate 5 in Tacoma.
Kitsap and Puget
* Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, in Puget Sound
According to Puget Sound Partnership, Kitsap county has over of saltwater shoreline.
These warheads were concentrated in two places: at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane and at the Kitsap Submarine Base across Puget Sound, on the Hood Canal.
The first contact between the Suquamish and European explorers came in 1792 when George Vancouver explored Puget Sound and met with members of the Suquamish tribe, possibly including Schweabe and Kitsap.
One was Kitsap, who led a coalition of Puget Sound tribes against the Cowichan Tribes of Vancouver Island around 1825.
Though both Kitsap and Sealth are often called " Chief ", this is an attribution by English speakers ; such designations were not used by the Puget Sound Indians themselves.
The tribe lives along Hood Canal, a fjord-like inlet on the west side of the Kitsap Peninsula and the Puget Sound basin.
By the beginning of the 1930s, two lines remained: the Puget Sound Navigation Company ( known as the Black Ball Line ) and the Kitsap County Transportation Company.
Its northern boundary is defined as a line running between Point Wilson and Point Partridge, and it extends south to the southern end of Whidbey Island and Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula, where it joins the Central Basin of Puget Sound's Main Basin.
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.
Southworth is an unincorporated community on Puget Sound in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.
SR 16 originates at Interstate 5, runs through the city of Tacoma, and crosses the Tacoma Narrows of Puget Sound on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to Gig Harbor on the Kitsap Peninsula.
* Southworth, Washington-unincorporated community on Puget Sound in Kitsap County, Washington
* Point Southworth-on Kitsap Peninsula on the western side of the northern entrance to Colvos Passage in Puget Sound
Located at the northern end of the Kitsap Peninsula, it offers a view of Admiralty Inlet, Whidbey Island, and Puget Sound.
The Colvos Passage is a tidal strait within Puget Sound in the American state of Washington running west of Vashon Island between the island and the Kitsap Peninsula.
According to the Puget Sound Regional Council ( PSRC ), a board that plans for growth in the four central counties of the area ( Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish and King counties ), the combined population of these counties was nearly 3. 4 million residents in 2003.
Sinclair Inlet is an arm of Puget Sound in Kitsap County, Washington, USA.
* The Kitsap Peninsula, a peninsula in western Washington state, lying between Hood Canal and Puget Sound.
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