South Sound · WA
Olympia
The capital at the southern tip of Puget Sound.
- Population
- 55,605 (2020 census)
- Territorial capital
- 1853
- Incorporated
- 1859
Then
- Before 1846
The Steh-Chass people, later part of the Squaxin Island Tribe, live here.
- 1846
Edmund Sylvester and Levi Smith claim the site of downtown.
- 1850
The town takes the name Olympia, for its view of the Olympic Mountains.
- 1853
Olympia becomes capital of Washington Territory.
- 1910–1911
Dredging Budd Inlet for a deep-water port creates about 30 blocks of downtown.
Now
Olympia is the state capital. This place covers the South Sound's inlets, from Budd and Eld to Case Inlet and the Key Peninsula.
16 tide stations around Olympia
- Olympia, Budd Inlet1.5 mi
- Budd Inlet, Olympia Shoal4.2 mi
- Rocky Point, Eld Inlet5.8 mi
- Dofflemeyer Point, Boston Hbr., Budd Inlet7.2 mi
- Henderson Inlet8.6 mi
- Devils Head, Drayton Passage11.0 mi
- Arcadia, Totten Inlet11.1 mi
- Dupont Wharf, Nisqually Reach12.4 mi
- Longbranch, Filucy Bay13.8 mi
- McMicken Island, Case Inlet14.5 mi
Show all 16 stations
- Walkers Landing, Pickering Passage16.9 mi
- Home, Von Geldern Cove, Carr Inlet17.7 mi
- Horsehead Bay, Carr Inlet20.9 mi
- Vaughn, Case Inlet21.8 mi
- Union24.0 mi
- Allyn, Case Inlet24.1 mi