Port Orchard is a city in and the county seat 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 rule 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 say yes 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 new 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 adequate location for substitute installation on the West Coast, and found it taking into account the suggestion of Sidney’s residents in Orchard Bay (this installation would sophisticated become the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton).

The county seat was originally in Port Madison, but moved to Sidney after a popular vote in 1892. In December of that same year, the residents of Sidney petitioned both the give leave to enter legislature and the Post Office Department to rename the city “Port Orchard”. The legislature refused, as Charleston (now West Bremerton) had as well as requested that name. The Post Office Department, however, went through in the same way as the read out change, and in view of that the Port Orchard pronounce office ended taking place in Sidney, and the Charleston publicize office ended happening in Port Orchard. It wasn’t until 1903 that local politician Will Thompson convinced the own up legislature to truthful this uncertain situation, and relocated the Charleston post office to Charleston, at the thesame time renaming Sidney “Port Orchard”, as it is known today.