Case Inlet (Wash.)
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- Work cat.: United States. National Ocean Survey. Case's [sic] Inlet, Puget Sound, Oregon Territory by the U.S. Ex. Ex. 1841; Carrs [sic] Inlet, Puget Sound, Oregon Territory by the U.S. Ex. Ex. 1841, 19--.
- GNIS, Nov. 14, 2002(Case Inlet, bay, Mason and Pierce Co., Wash.)
- Getty thesaurus of geog. names, via WWW, Nov. 14, 2002(Case Inlet (inlet), Wash., 47⁰16ʹN 122⁰50ʹW)
- Wash. place names database, via WWW, Nov. 14, 2002(Cases Inlet (Ts.19-22N;R.1W) - Cases Inlet is an eighteen mile long inlet extending north from Nisqually Reach to North Bay in South Puget Sound. It is the boundary between northwest Pierce and southeast Mason counties which follows the inlet in mid-channel. In 1841, this branch of Puget Sound was named Case's Inlet by Cmdr. Charles Wilkes. That form is used on some maps, while others use Case Inlet.)
- DeLorme Mapping Co. Washington atlas & gaz., c1995:p. 62 (Case Inlet; Puget Sound; Pierce Co. and Mason Co.)
Case Inlet, in southern Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington, is an arm of water between Key Peninsula to the east and Harstine Island to the west. Its northern end, called North Bay, reaches nearly to Hood Canal, creating the defining isthmus of Kitsap Peninsula. Case Inlet is the boundary between Pierce County and Mason County. The southern end of Case Inlet connects to Nisqually Reach, part of the southern basin of Puget Sound. Herron Island lies in Case Inlet. Case Inlet was named by Charles Wilkes of the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, to honor Augustus L. Case, one of the expedition's officers. From the 1870s to the 1920s, transportation needs of the communities along Case Inlet were served by a small flotilla of steamboats.
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