Illahee Creek

Illahee is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, between Bremerton and Silverdale. It is home to Illahee State Park and other local parks. The word "Illahee" means earth or country in the Native language Chinuk Wawa.

Illahee State Park is an 82-acre (33 ha) Washington state park located in the hamlet of Illahee, just north of East Bremerton, on Port Orchard Bay, part of Puget Sound. The word "Illahee" means earth or country in the Native language Chinuk Wawa. The park was established when Kitsap County donated 13 acres to the state in 1934. The park's old-growth stand is home to one of the nation's oldest Pacific yews, which has been standing for approximately 400 years. Park activities include picnicking, camping, hiking, boating, and shellfish harvesting.

Enetai is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Kitsap County, Washington. The population was 2,497 at the 2020 census.

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 Passage in the south. It was named in May 1792 by George Vancouver after Harry Masterman Orchard, ship's clerk of Vancouver's ship Discovery.

The Kitsap Regional Library is a public library system in Kitsap County, Washington. Founded in 1944 as the Kitsap County Rural Library District, the library system serves over 277,000 Kitsap residents with nine locations across the county and through a variety of outreach services. The Library provides access to over 400,000 items in its physical collection as well as access to downloadable eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, and music. Library patrons can also access popular digital resources such as AllData Repair, Ancestry.com, Consumer Reports, Learning Express and Mango Languages. Kitsap Regional Library is a primarily tax-funded organization overseen by a five-member Board of Trustees. Board members represent the five geographic regions of Kitsap County - which include Bainbridge, Bremerton, North Kitsap, South Kitsap, and Central Kitsap - and are appointed for five-year terms.Along with these funds, the Library relies on local civic organizations, seven Friends of the Library organizations, Bainbridge Library, Inc. and the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation, which contributes approximately $300,000 combined annually to support programs and the maintenance of Library spaces. Additionally, the efforts of these groups have made possible the building of a new library in Kingston and the building of a new library in Silverdale.

Barker Creek Community School (BCCS) is a public K-12 school of choice in Bremerton, Washington, United States. It is operated by the Central Kitsap School District and was established in 2017 as an alternative learning option. The school offers classroom-based learning, a remote learning program, and a homeschooling support program.

Waterman is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, in the U.S. state of Washington.

Manette, Washington is a community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It was established as a town on April 20, 1891, but was later made part of Bremerton, Washington. Manette is located on Point Herron, commonly known as the Manette Peninsula, in the body of water known as Port Orchard, part of Puget Sound.

Rich Passage is a tidal strait in Puget Sound, allowing access to Bremerton, Washington, the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sinclair Inlet, and Dyes Inlet. It separates Bainbridge Island from the Manchester area of Kitsap Peninsula. The Seattle–Bremerton ferry, part of the Washington State Ferries, travels the length of Rich Passage on its route. In addition to the many ferry trips each way per day, tugs with hawser tows and various types of naval and recreational craft all contribute to a considerable collision hazard. Fort Ward Park and Manchester State Park are located on the Rich Passage waterfront.Rich Passage was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, to honor William Rich, the expedition's botanist.

The Manette Peninsula is a headland that is part of the larger Kitsap Peninsula, located on the eastern flank of the Kitsap Peninsula, in western Washington, United States.

The Lindstrom House is an American Institute of Architects award-winning single family residence in Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was built by Richard D. Lindstrom (Morgan and Lindstrom) in 1978 for himself and his family. Lindstrom received the 1979 American Institute of Architects Honors Award for this house, one of only two residential structures that year to receive this distinction. Over the years, the house has been recognized in numerous publications for both the trade and general public. The house was inspired by the Ise Grand Shrine near Nara, Japan, as well as Native American longhouses of the Northwest Coast. It was remodeled, updated and expanded in 2007.

Springbrook Creek is a stream on Bainbridge Island in Western Washington, United States. Emerging from various small tributary streams, the creek flows generally northwest through areas of wetland before draining into Fletcher Bay, an arm of Port Orchard in the larger Puget Sound. The creek has a wide estuary and mudflat at its mouth, shared with Issei Creek and two seasonal streams. Among the largest creeks on the island, it hosts salmonids such as cutthroat trout and coho salmon. During the Last Ice Age, the Vashon Glaciation deposited till over the island, which was weathered and eroded into a network of streams. The basin is now largely covered by secondary forest and wetlands. Initially inhabited by the Suquamish people, the island was clearcut by American settlers by the early 20th century. The watershed is now largely occupied by rural residential areas and hobby farms. High summer temperatures and contamination from roads and nearby agriculture pose water quality concerns.