Hansville

History

Point No Point was first sighted by a European settler, and given its English name, during the United States Exploring Expedition of Puget Sound in 1841. Expedition leader Charles Wilkes gave the site its name because it appears much less of a promontory at close range than it does from a distance. On January 25, 1855, Isaac Stevens, the governor of the newly organized Washington Territory, summoned a treaty council to Point No Point, which was attended by 1,200 American Indians of the Chimakum, Klallam, and Skokomish tribes, Point No Point being a central midpoint between the tribal centers. The Point No Point Treaty was signed between the United States and the delegates of the tribes the following day. In 1900 the Hansville Community Church was founded, with the first permanent structure for the congregation built nine years later. Hansville was connected to Point No Point and its lighthouse by a road constructed in 1908. In 1924 another road was built south to Kingston, allowing access to the isolated community by means other than boat or trail for the first time. The addition of the road helped develop Hansville into a resort fishing destination, but a decline in the sports fishery in the 1960s led to the closure of the lodges. In 1962 Driftwood Key was platted with 59 lots on the west side of the peninsula, southwest of the original settlement of Hansville. By 2008 the homeowner association had grown to become the largest neighborhood in Hansville with 732 properties, approximately one-third of the residential lots in the community.

Geography

Hansville is situated at the north end of the Kitsap Peninsula, north of Kingston. On the west side of Hansville lies Hood Canal and Coon Bay. The Foulweather Bluff is a small elevated peninsula at the extreme northwest tip of the Kitsap Peninsula, while Point No Point resides to the east, facing Puget Sound. The Columbia Center in Seattle is distantly visible to the southeast. The Hansville CDP is bordered to the south by the Port Gamble Tribal Community, to the west across Hood Canal by Jefferson County, and to the northeast across Admiralty Inlet by Whidbey Island in Island County.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  41,706
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  40,028
• Dark-eyed Junco

  Junco hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  33,437
• Spotted Towhee

  Pipilo maculatus Swainson, 1827 · Aves
  32,430
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  31,721
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  26,945
• Anna's Hummingbird

  Calypte anna (R.Lesson, 1829) · Aves
  26,599
• Northern Flicker

  Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  23,117

Most recent

• M 2.51 — 2026-08-09
  11 km SSW of River Road, Washington
• M 3.8 — 2026-07-02
  2 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
• M 2.5 — 2026-06-26
  11 km E of Carnation, Washington
• M 2.87 — 2026-06-08
  2 km ESE of Oak Harbor, Washington
• M 2.84 — 2026-05-27
  4 km W of Wauna, Washington
• M 2.54 — 2026-05-07
  4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington