Jefferson County Cities

  

• Cities are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right •

NOTE: City Naming History adapted from the book Washington State Place Names (8th Printing, 1997)
with permission from the Publisher: University of Washington Press.
Jefferson County
 Jefferson County's Web Site
18th Largest County by Area - County Seat: Port Townsend
county map

Jefferson County, a land of forested mountains and seashores, is located in the central portion of the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington. American settlers petitioned successfully for a county government and the Oregon Territorial Legislature proclaimed Jefferson a county December 22, 1852, shortly before Washington Territory was established by Congress in 1853.