Fox Island
Fox Island is a 5.2 square mile island off the south end of the Kitsap Peninsula, in the Puget Sound of Washington state, across from the Tacoma "Narrows". It is semi-rural, with bridge access from Gig Harbor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,920 residents
- Description: census designated place in Washington, United States
- Also known as: “Fox Island, WA”, “Fox Island, Washington”, “Sylvan”, and “Sylvan Glen”
- Postal code: 98333
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fox Island School and Tanglewood Island.
Fox Island School
Building
Photo: Hedwig in Washington, CC BY 3.0.
The Fox Island School is a former public school in Fox Island, Washington. On 15. July 1987 the National Register of Historic Places listed the building under the reference number 87001167 as a historic building.
Tanglewood Island
Islet
Tanglewood Island is a small island in Hale Passage off the northern shore of Fox Island in Pierce County, Washington. It was originally called Grave Island and was sacred to the Nisqually Indians, who for decades practiced tree burials by placing their honored dead in dugout canoes high in the fir trees.
Fox Island
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Pierce, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.2466° or 47° 14′ 48″ northLongitude
-122.6172° or 122° 37′ 2″ westPopulation
3,920Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FXLOpen location code
84VV69WM+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 34743345OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Fox Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوكس آيلاند”
- Basque: “Fox Island”
- Catalan: “Fox Island”
- Cebuano: “Fox Island”
- Chechen: “Фокс-Айленд”
- Chinese: “Fox Island”
- Czech: “Fox Island”
- Dutch: “Fox Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوكس آيلاند”
- French: “Fox Island”
- German: “Fox Island, Washington”
- German: “Fox Island”
- Gilaki: “فاکس آیلند (واشينگتن)”
- Gilaki: “فاکس آیلند”
- Hungarian: “Fox-sziget”
- Irish: “Fox Island”
- Italian: “Fox Island”
- Ladin: “Fox Island”
- Low German: “Fox Island, Washington”
- Low German: “Fox Island”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fox Island”
- Persian: “فاکس آیلند، واشینگتن”
- Persian: “فاکس آیلند”
- Polish: “Fox Island”
- Portuguese: “Fox Island”
- Russian: “остров Фокс”
- Serbian: “Фокс Ајланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fox Island, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fox Island”
- South Azerbaijani: “فاکس آیلند، واشینقتون”
- Spanish: “Fox Island”
- Swedish: “Fox Island”
- Tatar: “Фокс-Айленд”
- Ukrainian: “Фокс-Айленд”
- Uzbek: “Fox Island”
- Volapük: “Fox Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fox Island”. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.