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Port Orchard is a city in and the county chair of Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is located 13 miles (21 km) due west of West Seattle and is amalgamated to Seattle and Vashon Island via the Washington State Ferries govern to Southworth. It is named after Port Orchard, the strait that separates Bainbridge Island from the Kitsap Peninsula.

As of the 2010 census the population was 11,144, and in 2019 the population was an estimated 14,597.

The first European-Americans to be of the same mind in what is now Port Orchard were William Renton and Daniel Howard, who set taking place a sawmill there in 1854. The town that was to become Port Orchard was originally platted in 1886 by Frederick Stevens, who named the extra 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 U.S. Navy sought a okay location for out of the ordinary installation on the West Coast, and found it later the assistance of Sidney’s residents in Orchard Bay (this installation would vanguard become the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton).