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Port Orchard, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Port Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98366. It stands on Blackjack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bremerton West quadrangle. 15,587 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Port Orchard within Kitsap County

On record in Port Orchard

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Port Orchard between 1994 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDOWN TIMBER
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSUNNY SLOPE
29 August 2002Smoking2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 August 1994Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 July 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPACE BLANKET
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWERNER RD
15 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVICTORY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Port Orchard: 18 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kitsap QuarryStoneProducer
Port OrchardClayPast Producer
Bourn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charleston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Olsen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pioneer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reynolds QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Waterman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Orchard in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2007Heavy RainPort Orchard$30,000,000Heavy rains caused officials to close or restrict nearly 200 roads, including major commuter paths such as Highway 3. A large sinkhole developed near the High Point Shopping Center in Port Orchard. About 300 structures throughout the county were damaged. Several stores in Silverdale suffered water damage.
December 2018Tornado (EF2)Port Orchard$1,180,000At 1350PST, a tornado touched down near Port Orchard, WA. This tornado continued on the ground in a northeast direction for approximately 5 minutes. Significant structure damage was evident in the damage path, including one home where the roof was completely removed. Ultimately, 300 homes and businesses were impacted by the tornado. It resulted in 25 red-tagged (uninhabitable), and 20 yellow-tagged (habitable at own risk) homes.
December 2010FloodPort Orchard$1,000,000About 200 people were trapped near Port Orchard when Hunter road was washed out by a raging creek - it is the only road in and out of a neighborhood. Lake Flora Rd was also closed near highway 3 where it was washed out.

Every storm recorded in Kitsap County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Annapolis1.0 miles13
East Port Orchard1.3 miles13
Retsil1.4 miles13
Parkwood1.5 miles13
Navy Yard City1.8 miles14
Bremerton1.9 miles14
Charleston1.9 miles14
Orchard Heights2.1 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Port OrchardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q935482The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512580. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.