Talk:Port Orchard

Poor Torchard?

The first word in the article says "Poor Torchard", which looks like a typo. I'm going to fix it, but let me know here if that's actually supposed to be that way. Foolster41 (talk) 08:50, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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This states that Port Orchard is a strait and yet also has a population. The small town of Port Orchard is not in the middle of the strait. Please get the facts straight on this one. Arinna 21:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)Arinna

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Note, this has been fixed, see next section for what the problem was. Pfly 03:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

port orchard

I live in port orchard it is in no way shape or form a strait. Port orchard is a CITY population 8,ooo. Also, the courts of kitsap county are seated in the city of port orchard.

The page Port Orchard, Washington is about the city. The waterbody between Bainbridge Island and Kitsap Peninsula is called Port Orchard, which is what this page is about. Following the normal naming conventions, pages about cities have the state name included. A page about a waterbody normally needs nothing extra in the title, as with Port Madison and Moses Lake. There is a link to the city of Port Orchard in the very first line of this page, and I added another in the body to be clear. The city of Port Orchard was named after the waterbody, which is indeed a strait. Confusion may result in part from Port Orchard, the city, being on the shore of Sinclair Inlet rather than Port Orchard itself. Look at a map to get a better sense of all this. Pfly 18:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Is there any source to reference that Port Orchard the city was named after the body of water rather than also named after the clerk on the Discovery? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.101.193 (talk) 06:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

This source says both. 50.47.213.240 (talk) 04:55, 2 September 2011 (UTC)