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Lone Rock is an
unincorporated community
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on the coast of the Hood Canal
Hood Canal is a fjord forming the western lobe, and one of the four main basins,Kitsap County, 
Lone Rock is one of a small collection of historic rural communities in the western part of Kitsap County, which includes Seabeck,
Washington
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It gets its name from the glacial erratic
A glacial erratic is glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word ' ("to wander"), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundr ...
boulder
In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive.
In ...
on the tidal flat
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about 400 feet off shore.
Lone Rock is one of a small collection of historic rural communities in the western part of Kitsap County, which includes Seabeck, Holly
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, Camp Union, Crosby and Hintzville. The Lone Rock community club defines Lone Rock as running along the coast from Seabeck to Olympic View and inland to Willamette Meridian Road and Newberry Hill Road. Little Beef Creek is widely regarded as the dividing line between Lone Rock and Seabeck. In this view, Lone Rock includes the Big Beef and Little Anderson Creeks and spans the smaller communities of Warrenville, Lawters Beach and Anderson Landing.
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* Unincorporated communities in Washington (state) Unincorporated communities in Kitsap County, Washington Landforms of Kitsap County, Washington Glacial erratics of Washington (state) {{KitsapCountyWA-geo-stub