Port Townsend (Wash.)
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- home page (City of Port Townsend; 250 Madison Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368) Government > About Port Townsend (City of Port Townsend; Victorian Town on the Olympic Peninsula, surrounded by the Straits of Juan de Fuca and Port Townsend Bay; incorporated in 1851) History of Port Townsend (Geographically isolated at the tip of the Quimper Peninsula on the Olympic Peninsula ( (City of Port Townsend website, April 26, 2019:) )
- GNIS, April 26, 2019(Port Townsend, populated place, variant name: Port Townshend, Jefferson County, Washington)
- Wikipedia, April 26, 2019(Port Townsend, Washington; city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington; county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County; 48°6ʹ59ʺN 122°46ʹ31ʺW (48.116514, -122.775254))
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Port Townsend is a city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,148 at the 2020 United States Census. It is the county seat of, and the only incorporated city in, Jefferson County. In addition to its natural scenery at the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula, the city is 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. The Port Townsend Historic District is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District. It is also significantly drier than the surrounding region due to being in the rainshadow of the Olympic Mountains, receiving only 19 inches or 480 millimeters of rain per year.
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