Budd Inlet is an
inlet
An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
Overview
In marine ...
located at the southern end of
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected m ...
in
Thurston County,
Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
. It is the southernmost arm of Puget Sound.
Etymology
Budd Inlet was named by
Charles Wilkes
Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 – February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer, ship's captain, and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842).
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), he commanded ' during the ...
during the
United States Exploring Expedition
The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the United States. The original appointed commanding officer was Commodore Thomas ap Catesby ...
, to honor
Thomas A. Budd, who served as acting master of the ''Peacock'' and ''Vincennes''. A portion of the coast of
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
,
Budd Coast, is also named for Thomas Budd.
History
Historically, the shores surrounding Budd Inlet were occupied by village sites of the Steh-Chass (or Stehchass),
Lushootseed
Lushootseed (txʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid), also Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually, is a language made up of a dialect continuum of several Salish tribes of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is one of the Coast Salis ...
-speaking peoples who became part of the post-treaty Squaxin Island Tribe.
Around 1850,
American settlers American settlers is a broad-concept term which may refer to:
* Settlement of the Americas, which began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers entered North America via the Beringia land bridge from Siberia
* European colonization of the Americas, which ...
founded the city of
Olympia at the southern end of Budd Inlet.
Geography
Budd Inlet is long and has a maximum breadth of . The southern end of Budd Inlet is divided into two channels – West Bay and East Bay – by a peninsula that was
artificially broadened throughout the late 19th and early 20th century.
The
Deschutes River Deschutes River may refer to:
*Deschutes River (Oregon)
**Little Deschutes River (Oregon), a tributary of the Deschutes River in Oregon
*Deschutes River (Washington)
The Deschutes River is a river in the U.S. state of Washington. Its headwater ...
empties into West Bay just north of
Tumwater Falls. The
mudflat
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers. A global analysis published in 2019 suggested that tidal f ...
s that existed here were dammed and submerged beneath
Capitol Lake
Capitol Lake is a 3 kilometer (1.9 mile) long, artificial lake at the mouth of Deschutes River in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington. The Olympia Brewery sits on Capitol Lake in Tumwater, just downstream from where the Tumwater Falls meet the art ...
in 1949.
A deepwater shipping channel was dredged in East Bay to provide deep water access to the
Port of Olympia.
See also
*
Mud Bay
*
Henderson Inlet Henderson Inlet is a small, southern inlet of Puget Sound, Washington state, situated between Budd Inlet to the west and Nisqually Reach to the east. It is located in Thurston County and the nearest city is Olympia, the state capital. Henderson I ...
References
External links
Bodies of water of Thurston County, Washington
History of Olympia, Washington
Geography of Olympia, Washington
Inlets of Washington (state)
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