Kitsap County is a

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in the

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Washington Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A ...

. As of the 2020 census, its population was 275,611. Its

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Port Orchard 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 Passag ...

; its largest city is

Bremerton Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 43,505 at the 2020 census and an estimated 44,122 in 2021, making it the largest city on the Kitsap Peninsula. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ...

. The county, formed out of

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and Jefferson County on January 16, 1857, is named for

Chief Kitsap Kitsap (; ) was a leader of the Suquamish people during the 19th century. Kitsap was the orchestrator of a region-wide coalition that sought to end the constant slave raids perpetrated by the Cowichan. His wealth and prestige allowed him to bu ...

of the

Suquamish The Suquamish () are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American people, located in present-day Washington in the United States. They are a southern Coast Salish people. Today, most Suquamish people are enrolled in the federally recognized Su ...

Tribe. Originally named Slaughter County, it was soon renamed. Kitsap County comprises the Bremerton– Silverdale–

, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the

Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

–

Tacoma Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, southwest of Bellevue, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, northwest of Mount ...

, WA Combined Statistical Area. The

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...

is the largest employer in the county, with installations at

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, officially Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF), is a United States Navy shipyard covering 179 acres (0.7 km2) on Puget Sound at Bremerton, Washington in uninterrupted ...

Naval Undersea Warfare Center The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons ...

Keyport, and

Naval Base Kitsap Naval Base Kitsap is a United States Navy, U.S. Navy base located on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington (state), Washington state, created in 2004 by merging the former Naval Station Bremerton with Naval Submarine Base Bangor. It is the home ba ...

(which comprises former NSB Bangor and NS Bremerton). Kitsap County is connected to the eastern shore of

Puget Sound Puget Sound ( ; ) is a complex estuary, estuarine system of interconnected Marine habitat, marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. As a part of the Salish Sea, the sound ...

Washington State Ferries Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a public ferry system in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. It is a division of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and operates 10 routes serving 20 terminals within Puget ...

routes, including the Seattle-Bremerton Ferry,

Southworth Southworth may refer to: People * Southworth (surname) Places * Southworth, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Southworth, Washington – unincorporated community on Puget Sound in Kitsap County, Washington * Point Southworth – on Kitsap Penins ...

West Seattle West Seattle is a conglomeration of List of neighborhoods in Seattle, neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington, United States. It comprises two of the List of neighborhoods in Seattle, thirteen districts, Delridge, Seattle, Delridge and Southwest, ...

via

Vashon Island Vashon () is a census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States. It covers an island alternately called Vashon Island or Vashon–Maury Island, the largest island in Puget Sound south of Admiralty Inlet. Before the constru ...

, Bainbridge Island to Downtown Seattle, and from Kingston to Edmonds, Washington.

Kitsap Transit Kitsap Transit is a public transit agency serving Kitsap County, Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The system is based in Bremerton and operates bus service on 40 fixed routes, a foot ferry, a vanpool system, worker-driver serv ...

provides passenger-only fast ferry service between Bremerton and Seattle, Kingston and Seattle, and Southworth and Seattle.

History

The Kitsap Peninsula was originally acquired by the U.S. Government in three pieces by three treaties negotiated with the Native American tribes: * The

Treaty of Medicine Creek The Treaty of Medicine Creek was an 1854 treaty between the United States, and nine tribes and bands of Indians, occupying the lands lying around the head of Puget Sound, Washington, and the adjacent inlets. The tribes listed on the Treaty of Medic ...

, signed December 26, 1854, ratified March 3, 1855 * The

Treaty of Point Elliott The Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855, or the Point Elliott Treaty,—also known as the Treaty of Point Elliot / Point Elliot Treaty—is the lands settlement treaty between the United States government and the Native American tribes of the greater ...

, signed January 22, 1855, ratified April 11, 1859 *

Point No Point Treaty The Point No Point Treaty was signed on January 26, 1855, at Point No Point, on the northern tip of the Kitsap Peninsula. Governor of Washington Territory, Isaac Stevens, convened the treaty council on January 25, with the S'Klallam, the Ch ...

, signed January 26, 1855, ratified March 8, 1859. Territorial Governor

Isaac Stevens Isaac Ingalls Stevens (March 25, 1818 – September 1, 1862) was an American military officer and politician who served as governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857, and later as its delegate to the United States House of Represe ...

represented the United States in all three negotiations. When the

Washington Territory The Washington Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1853, until November 11, 1889, when the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Washington. It was created from the ...

was organized in 1853, the Kitsap Peninsula was divided between King County to the east and Jefferson County to the west. Official public papers were required to be filed at the county seat, which meant Peninsula business people had to travel to either Seattle or Port Townsend to transact business. On the understanding that they would "bring home a new county," area mill operators George Meigs and William Renton supported the candidacies to the Territorial Legislature of two employees from their respective mills: Timothy Duane Hinckley from Meigs' and S.B. Wilson from Renton's. Upon arrival in Olympia, the two men introduced bills to create a new county, to be named "Madison". Representative Abernathy from Wahkiakum County proposed an amendment to name it "Slaughter", in recognition of Lt. William Alloway Slaughter, who had been killed in 1855 in the

Yakima War The Yakima War (1855–1858), also referred to as the Plateau War or Yakima Indian War, was a conflict between the United States and the Yakama, a Sahaptian-speaking people of the Northwest Plateau, then part of Washington Territory, and the tr ...

. The bill passed as amended. It was signed by Governor

on January 16, 1857. The county seat would be located in Meigs's mill town at Port Madison. In Slaughter County's first election on July 13, 1857, voters were given the opportunity to rename the county. The options were "Mill", "Madison" or "Kitsap". Slaughter was not one of the options. Kitsap won by an overwhelming majority. Kitsap County is home to several major

facilities, collectively named

, and grew in response to wars and conflicts in the 20th century. Bremerton, the site of the

, peaked at 80,000 residents during

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Naval Submarine Base Bangor Naval Submarine Base Bangor is a former submarine base of the United States Navy that was merged with Naval Station Bremerton into Naval Base Kitsap in 2004. History The Naval Support Base Bangor's naval history began in 1942 when it became a s ...

was developed in the 1980s to store nuclear weapons for submarines and contributed to the county's population growth during the decade from 147,000 to 190,000.

Geography

According to the

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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (30%) is water. It is the fourth-smallest county in Washington by land area and third-smallest by total area. In addition to occupying most of the

Kitsap Peninsula The Kitsap Peninsula () lies west of Seattle across Puget Sound, in Washington state in the Pacific Northwest. Hood Canal separates the peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula on its west side. The peninsula, a.k.a. "Kitsap", encompasses all of Kits ...

, Kitsap County includes both

Bainbridge Island Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located in Puget Sound. The population was 24,825 at the 2020 census, making Bainbridge Island the second largest city in Kitsap County. The island is se ...

and

Blake Island Blake Island () is a Puget Sound island in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, that is preserved as Blake Island Marine State Park. The island lies north of Vashon Island, south of Bainbridge Island, and east of Manchester. On the nort ...

. According to Puget Sound Partnership, Kitsap county has over of saltwater shoreline. 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

* Buck Lake *

Colvos Passage 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. It lies just north of the Dalco Passage. Colvos Passage has a permanent ...

Dyes Inlet Dyes Inlet is an inlet on the Kitsap Peninsula in western Washington, USA. The unincorporated Silverdale community is located on the north shore of the inlet and has a small marina, boat ramp, boardwalk, and two waterfront parks. The west shoreli ...

Hood Canal Hood Canal is a fjord-like body of water that lies south of Admiralty Inlet in Washington State that some consider to be the western lobe and one of the five main basins of Puget Sound.Kitsap Peninsula The Kitsap Peninsula () lies west of Seattle across Puget Sound, in Washington state in the Pacific Northwest. Hood Canal separates the peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula on its west side. The peninsula, a.k.a. "Kitsap", encompasses all of Kits ...

Liberty Bay Liberty Bay is a narrow inlet extending about 4 miles in a northerly direction from the northwest part of Port Orchard, adjacent to the Kitsap Peninsula in Western Washington. Background The southeastern half of Liberty Bay is very narrow. The ...

* Port Gamble *

Port Madison Port Madison, sometimes called Port Madison Bay, is a deep water bay located on the west shore of Puget Sound in western Washington (state), Washington. It is bounded on the north by Indianola, Washington, Indianola, on the west by Suquamish, Wash ...

Sinclair Inlet Sinclair Inlet is a shallow embayment in the western part of Puget Sound in Kitsap County, Washington, USA. It has a maximum depth of 20 meters. It is the southwestern extension of Port Orchard, and it touches the shores of three of Kitsap County ...

* Blue Hills *

Seattle Fault Zone The Seattle Fault is a zone of multiple shallow east–west thrust faults that cross the Puget Sound Lowland and through Seattle (in the U.S. state of Washington) in the vicinity of Interstate Highway 90. The Seattle Fault was first recognized as ...

Kitsap Lake Kitsap Lake is a lake in Kitsap County, Washington. The lake is near the exact center of the Kitsap Peninsula, roughly between the Dyes Inlet in the Puget Sound and the Blue Hills peak range. It is located on the edge of the Bremerton, Washing ...

* Ostrich Bay * Horseshoe Lake

Adjacent counties

Island County Island County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 86,857. Its county seat is Coupeville, while its largest city is Oak Harbor. The county's name reflects the fact that it is compos ...

- northeast *

Snohomish County Snohomish County () is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. With a population of 827,957 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous county in Washington, after nearby King and Pierce counties, and the 72nd-most popul ...

- east *

- east/southeast * Pierce County - south/southeast * Mason County - southwest * Jefferson County - northwest

Notable parks

Blake Island Marine State Park Blake Island () is a Puget Sound island in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, that is preserved as Blake Island Marine State Park. The island lies north of Vashon Island, south of Bainbridge Island, and east of Manchester. On the northea ...

, *

Bloedel Reserve The Bloedel Reserve is a forest garden on Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States. It was created by Virginia and Prentice Bloedel, the vice-chairman of the lumber company MacMillan Bloedel Limited, under the influence of the conservatio ...

Camp Yeomalt Camp Yeomalt is a one-story lodge originally built as a Boy Scout camp on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The camp was originally built as Camp Major Hopkins (named for Major Maurice Jayne Hopkins) in 1935 by unemployed island residents, recruited ...

* Eagledale Park * Fay Bainbridge Park *

Fort Ward Park Fort Ward Park is park located along Rich Passage on the southern end of Bainbridge Island, Washington, Bainbridge Island in Washington (state), Washington State, United States. Fort Ward Park is part of the Bainbridge Island Metro Park and Rec ...

* Illahee State Park * Kitsap Memorial State Park * Manchester State Park * Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park, *

Pritchard Park Pritchard Park is a former Superfund environmental cleanup site on the shore of Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor in Washington state. The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial is within the park. History The Pacific Creosoting ...

* Scenic Beach State Park

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 census, there were 275,611 people, 105,803 households, and 71,548 families living in the county.

2010 census

As of the 2010 census, there were 251,133 people, 97,220 households, and 65,820 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 107,367 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 82.6% white, 4.9% Asian, 2.6% black or African American, 1.6% American Indian, 0.9% Pacific islander, 1.6% from other races, and 5.8% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 6.2% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 21.3% were

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, 14.4% were Irish, 13.8% were

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, 7.1% were Norwegian, and 4.2% were

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. Of the 97,220 households, 31.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.2% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 32.3% were non-families, and 25.2% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 2.97. The median age was 39.4 years. The median income for a household in the county was $59,549 and the median income for a family was $71,065. Males had a median income of $52,282 versus $38,499 for females. The per capita income for the county was $29,755. About 6.1% of families and 9.4% of the population were below the

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, including 11.8% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over.

Communities

Cities

(county seat) *

Poulsbo Poulsbo ( ) is a city on Liberty Bay in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is the smallest of the four cities in Kitsap County. The population was 11,970 at the 2020 census and an estimated 10,927 in 2018. The Suquamish people hav ...

Census-designated places

* Bangor Base *

Bethel Bethel (, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; ; ) was an ancient Israelite city and sacred space that is frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Bet ...

* Burley * Chico * East Port Orchard * Enetai * Erlands Point * Gorst * Hansville * Indianola * Keyport *

Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the six most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ...

* Lofall *

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

* Navy Yard City * Parkwood * Port Gamble Tribal Community * Rocky Point * Seabeck * Silverdale *

* Tracyton

Other unincorporated communities

Annapolis Annapolis ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the county seat of Anne Arundel County and its only incorporated city. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east o ...

* Bay Vista * Breidablick * Brownsville *

Camp Union Camp Union was a military training center for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Constructed near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the camp operated from 1861 until 1865, and primarily served various Pennsylvania volunteer regiments. The ...

* Central Valley * Clear Creek *

Crosby Crosby may refer to: Places Canada *Crosby, Ontario, part of the township of Rideau Lakes, Ontario *Crosby, Ontario, a neighbourhood in the city of Markham, Ontario England *Crosby, Cumbria *Crosby, Lincolnshire *Crosby, Merseyside **Crosby (UK P ...

* Eglon * Fernwood *

Fragaria ''Fragaria'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits. There are more than 20 described species and many Hybrid plant, hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberr ...

* Gilberton * Glenwood *

Harper Harper may refer to: Names * Harper (name), a surname and given name and place names, for example: Harper Islands, Nunavut. Places ;in Canada * Harper Islands, Nunavut * Harper, Prince Edward Island ;In the United States *Harper, former name ...

Holly ''Ilex'' () or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. ''Ilex'' has the most species of any woody dioecious angiosperm genus. The species are evergreen o ...

* Horseshoe Lake * Illahee * Island Lake * Kariotis * Lofall * Lone Rock * Long Lake * Olalla * Olalla Valley *

Scandia Scandza was described as a "great island" by Gothic-Byzantine historian Jordanes in his work ''Getica''. The island was located in the Arctic regions of the sea that surrounded the world. The location is usually identified with Scandinavia. Jor ...

* South Colby * South Park Village *

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* Waterman * Wautauga Beach * Wildcat Lake * Wye Lake

Politics

Kitsap County is generally considered to be a relatively Democratic area, owing to progressivism stemmed from the county's Scandinavian settlers. In the

2016 U.S. presidential election Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and ...

, Democrat

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received 49.0% of the vote to Republican

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's 38.1%. This Democratic margin widened in 2020, with candidate

Joe Biden Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice p ...

receiving 56.9% of the vote versus incumbent Trump receiving 38.8%. The Democratic margin widened ever further in 2024, with

Kamala Harris Kamala Devi Harris ( ; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female, first African American, and ...

receiving 58.5% of the vote compared with Trump's 37.7%, the largest margin of victory for a presidential candidate in the county since

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served a ...

in 1964. On mainland Kitsap County, politics are strongly influenced by working-class

, which casts moderate margins for Democratic candidates. Unincorporated Kitsap County is a mix of battleground areas. Non-Bremerton parts of incorporated mainland Kitsap County vary, with Silverdale having become a Republican stronghold,

marginally Democratic, and

consistently electing Republican candidates. Democrats typically carry the Indian reservations of the area by wide margins; the area around Little Boston, Washington, Little Boston (part of the Klallam, S'Klallam Indian Reservation) regularly votes for Democratic candidates. The Kitsap County Auditor Website has detailed election results from 1998 to the present. County area political trends can be tracked by analyzing the election precinct data.

Government

Board of County Commissioners

* District 1 (North Kitsap): Christine Rolfes, Democrat; appointed 2023. Elected in 2024 * District 2 (South Kitsap): Oran Root, Republican; elected in 2024 * District 3 (Central Kitsap): Katie Walters, Democrat; elected in 2022

State legislators

23rd Legislative District

, East Bremerton, Poulsbo and Silverdale *Sen. Drew Hansen (D) - Appointed August 2023 to replace Christine Rolfes who had been appointed to Board of County Commissioners. Elected November 2024. *Rep. Tarra Simmons (D) - First elected November 2020. *Sen. Greg Nance (D) - Appointed September 2023 to replace Drew Hansen, who had left to fill vacant senate seat. Elected November 2024.

26th Legislative District

Bremerton, Gig Harbor and

*Sen. Deborah Krishnadasan (D) - Appointed December 2024 to replace Emily Randall who had been elected to the U.S. Senate. *Rep. Adison Richards (D) - Elected November 2024. *Rep. Michelle Caldier (R)

35th Legislative District

Bremerton, Shelton, Washington, Shelton and Mason County *Sen. Drew MacEwen, Drew MacEwan (R) *Rep. Dan Griffey (R) *Rep. Travis Couture (R)

Education

Post-secondary education

*Olympic College

Public schools

*Bainbridge Island School District *Bremerton School District *Central Kitsap School District *North Kitsap School District *South Kitsap School District

Transportation

Kitsap County is connected to the eastern shore of

by several

routes, including the Seattle-Bremerton Ferry,

via

, Bainbridge Island to Downtown Seattle, and from Kingston to Edmonds, Washington.

provides local transit service within Kitsap County and connects to other transit systems that continue onto the Olympic Peninsula. The agency launched its Kitsap Fast Ferries, fast ferry services to Seattle in July 2017, beginning initially with a Bremerton route and later expanding to Kingston in 2018. Fast ferry service to Southworth is expected to begin in 2020. The county is connected to Jefferson County and the Olympic Peninsula to the west by the Hood Canal Bridge. A government-owned rail line, the Bangor-Shelton-Bremerton Navy Railroad, runs through the county. It is a branch off the Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad, with its junction at Shelton. At the Bremerton Junction near Gorst a spur follows Highway 3 along the shore of the Sinclair Inlet terminating at the Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard, the other follows Highway 3 along the western shore of Dyes Inlet, servicing Bangor Naval Submarine Base. The Navy had originally intended to use armored trains to transport nuclear missiles to Bangor for the Trident submarines but protesters and a series of court decisions derailed the plan. Today the railroad is primarily used to transport scrap from PSNS.

Notable people

*Tarn Adams — programmer and game designer, creator of ''Dwarf Fortress'' and other games *Nathan Adrian — swimmer and Olympic gold medalist"Nathan Adrian - Bio"
''SwimSwam''. Retrieved July 22, 2021. *Dove Cameron — actress, singer *Ben Gibbard — musician *Richard F. Gordon Jr. — naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut *Russell Johnson — actor, best known as The Professor (Gilligan's Island), The Professor on TV's ''Gilligan's Island'' *James Kelsey (sculptor), James Kelsey — sculptor *Debbie Macomber — best-selling romance novelist *Gregg Olsen — best-selling mystery/crime novelist *Benji Olson — NFL player for Tennessee Titans *Delilah Rene — radio personality, author and songwriter *Bree Schaaf — 2010 Winter Olympics competitor in bobsled *Aaron Sele — former Major League Baseball All-Star Game, all-star Major League Baseball, MLB pitcher *Ben Shepherd — bass player of Seattle rock band Soundgarden *Scott Shipley — slalom canoeist *Marvin Williams — NBA player for the Atlanta Hawks *Andrew Wood (singer), Andrew Wood — lead singer of Seattle rock band Mother Love Bone

In popular culture

''Walking Tall (2004 film), Walking Tall'' with Dwayne Johnson, The Rock and Johnny Knoxville was based in Kitsap County, and the City of Port Orchard is the basis for the fictional community of Cedar Cove (fictional community), Cedar Cove in the books by Debbie Macomber.

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links

Kitsap County official websiteKitsap County USGenWebKitsap Peninsula Visitor and Convention BureauKitsap Economic Development AllianceKitsap Historical Society and Museum
{{authority control Kitsap County, Washington, Washington (state) placenames of Native American origin 1857 establishments in Washington Territory Populated places established in 1857 Seattle metropolitan area Western Washington

History

Geography

Geographic features

Adjacent counties

Notable parks

Demographics

2020 census

2010 census

Communities

Cities

Census-designated places

Other unincorporated communities

Politics

Government

Board of County Commissioners

State legislators

23rd Legislative District

26th Legislative District

35th Legislative District

Education

Post-secondary education

Public schools

Transportation

Notable people

In popular culture

See also

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links