Stretch Island is an island in Case Inlet

Case Inlet

Case Inlet, in southern Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington, is an arm of water between Key Peninsula on the east and Hartstine Island on 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...

 in the southern part of Puget Sound

Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and one minor connection to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean — Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and...

 in the state of Washington, USA. It forms part of the unincorporated Mason County community of Allyn-Grapeview

Allyn-Grapeview, Washington

Allyn-Grapeview is a census-designated place in Mason County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,004 at the 2000 census. The community-based monthly newspaper called the North Bay Review, services the Allyn-Grapeview area...

. The island has a land area of 1.2179 km² (300.95 acre

Acre

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s) and a population of 119 persons as of the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

. On the island's north side, it has buoys for overnight mooring

Mooring

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, and a small state park

State park

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 only accessible by boat

Boat

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Stretch Island was named by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841 for crew member Samuel Stretch. From the 1870s to the 1920s, transportation needs for Stretch Island and other communities along Case Inlet were once served by a small flotilla of steamboats

Case Inlet steamboats

Case Inlet steamboats served the small communities along the shore of Case Inlet in southern Puget Sound from the 1870s to 1924.-Geography:Case Inlet runs in northerly direction from the Nisqually Reach and divides the Key Peninsula on the east side of the inlet from Hartstine Island and the Kitsap...

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The local community based monthly newspaper called the North Bay Review, services Allyn.